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<br />OOllllf. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />previous floods fades and with future urban and industrial developments <br /> <br />proceeding in vulnerable areas, dollar damages will be ever greater in <br /> <br />the future unless something is done. Dams aN an essential part of the <br /> <br />answer -- multip!e-purpose dams where possible -- to assure not on!y <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />adequate flood control, but also the annual benefits of developed water <br /> <br />supplies to meet the needs of continued urban, industrial, and agricultural <br /> <br />growth throughout the South P!atte River Basin. <br /> <br />The flood danger is ever present. The need for augumented water <br /> <br />supplies is here now -- will be even greater, in the immediate future. <br /> <br />The dams Which can meet both of these needs can never be bui!t at less <br /> <br />cost than now. <br /> <br />Now is the time to p!an and then to build the dams needed. Hence, <br /> <br />,; <br />, <br /> <br />the Bureau of Reclamation urges support for the proposed TWO FORKS and <br /> <br />NARROWS Dams. TWO FORKS Dam 'would stand at the South Platte River gate- <br /> <br />way into the Denver metropolitan area. The Bureau of Reclamation's TWO <br /> <br />FORKS Dam would De planned in conjunction with the Chatfield Dam proposed <br /> <br />by the Corps of Engineers, The plans for the Two Forks and Chatfield . <br />. <br /> <br />Dams would size those reservoirs SO that their functions to supply both <br /> <br />the needed development of water supplies and the needed f!ood protection <br /> <br />functions would be fully integrated. <br /> <br />The proposed NARROWS Dam on the South Platte River, about seven <br /> <br />miles upstream from Ft. Morgan, has long been needed to supply supplemental <br /> <br /> <br />irrigation water to lands along the South Platte downstream from the dam. <br /> <br />As such, it is a necessary and a worthy undertaking. However, it can be <br /> <br />made 1II0re worthwhile by designing and building it. t.o provide the flood <br /> <br />contro! demonstrated as most urgently needed by this June 1965 flood. <br /> <br />3 <br />