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<br />...,. <br />M <br />ro <br />C'oJ <br /> <br />PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS <br /> <br />The first serious study of the ]:ossibility of storage on <br /> <br />West Divide Creek, ~s undertaken by the St~te Engineer of Colorado, <br /> <br />when in September 1934, a survey was made of the Haystack Reservoir <br /> <br />site in section 24, T. 9 S., R. 91 W., 6th, P.M., on Willow Creek, <br /> <br />a tributary of West Divide Creek. This survey showed a capacity of <br /> <br />5860 acre-feet at a water depth of 110 feet with a dan 780 feet long <br /> <br />on Middle Willow Creek. It provides also for a dyke on a low divide <br /> <br />between Middle and West Willow Creeks, 25 feet high and 600 feet <br /> <br />long. The cost is estioated at $264,000. <br /> <br />Apparently 520 acre-feet of addi ticIlfl.l capeci ty coulQ be <br /> <br />obtained with a can on West Willow Creek about three-eights mile <br /> <br />west of the nain dam. An additional outlet down West Willow Creek <br /> <br />might be necessary, but the dike mentioned above, and a feeder from <br /> <br />West Willow Creek to the main reservoir site would be saved. The <br /> <br />cost of this additio~al capacity is not stated. The reservoir sites <br /> <br />were on land, partly public and partly in private ownership, wIthin <br /> <br />Grand Mesa National Forest. <br /> <br />This investigation is carried on the records of the State <br /> <br />Engineer as Project No. 23. The Public Irrigation District retained <br /> <br />Mr. A. Lincoln Fellows to make further investigations and prepAre a <br /> <br />filing on the proposed reservoir site. During 1935 a nUDber of test <br /> <br />11 <br />