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<br />001107 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />". <br /> <br />NARROWS Dam site is located where it could capture all water of the <br /> <br />South Platte tributaries, from the Denver area downstream to the <br /> <br />unpredictable Bijou Creek, which enters the South Platte River near <br />Ft. Morgan. Host of the tributaries which head in the high Rocky <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />Mountains, are studded with small and large irrigation reservoirs which <br /> <br />usually succeed in skimming the crest of flood waters from those areas. <br /> <br />The problem, as vividly illustrated by this June 1965 flood, is the <br /> <br />far-flung, deceptively dangerous streams which originate almost as far <br /> <br />south as Colorado Springs and then flow north to enter the South Platte <br /> <br />River between Greeley and Ft. Horgan. These are the Box Elder, Kiowa, <br /> <br /> <br />and Bijou Creeks. Together, these three streams drain 2,500 square miles <br /> <br /> <br />of area, which is, too-frequently wracked by cloudburst rains. <br /> <br />, <br />" <br /> <br />The NARROWS and TWO FORKS DamS, along with the Chatfield Dam, are <br />much needed and should be planned and built as soon as possible. They <br /> <br />would solve most of COlorado's South Platte flood problems, on the <br /> <br />mainstream, and more significantly, TWO FORKS and NARROWS Dams would <br /> <br />develop usable water suppliea essential to continued economic growth in. <br />this portion of the semi-arid West. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />7/65 <br />