WSP07823

• File Number: 8443.200
• Description: Narrows Unit - Mailing Lists Correspondence
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 9/1/1961
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Site Selection Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Table 4. -- Allocation of Capacity for Narrows Reservoir
(ui thout Bijou Creek Control)

Storage Item

Elevation
in Ft.~I.S.L.

1 000 Acre-foot Units
Initi;1 A1ter)O A1'ter iUU
Conditions Years Years

St.enmbed Elevation
Dead Storage
Inactive Stora~e!!
Conservation storage!!
Joint Use Storage
Flood Control Stor~Ge
Sm.-charGe Cap::lcit,d!

4,307
4,315
4,351
4,393
4,399
4,lf21
4,lf43

0.3
51.7
300.0
75.0
380.0
610.0

0.0
!f!f.O
265.0
7> .0
380.0
610.0

0.0
36.0
230.0
75.0
380.0
610.0

Total

1,371f .0

1,331.0

1,417.0
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Note: Indicated elevations are fOr top o~ respective
~2!1 Calculated lOC-yr. seditEnt deposition is 26,000
=> Does not include 30,000 acre-feet of balli, storage
routine purposes.

storage pools.
acre-feet.
for flood

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Relocations uOLud be as folIous:

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Railroad .--Approxima.i;ely 32 miles of main line Union Pacific
Railroad would be relocated on the north side of the reservoir.

State Higlway No. 144. --About 21 miles of this Si;ate HiGhwa;y
would require relocation. The relocated hic;lma;y "auld consist of
a 3-mile reach across the proposed dam and the protective "arks
paralleling the Riverside Canal, a 17-mile reach paralleling the
relocated railroad, and a I-m~ile reach superimposed on an existing
county road across the South Platte River. In the last reach the
tuo bridges spanninc the South Platte Hi vel' would l"equire replacement.
This S.i;ate highwa;y is partly gravel-surfaced.

County Roads.--A few approaches from county roads onto the relocated
State Hi[lh"SO" No. llflf "ould be required.

Telephone and REA Electric Lines. --Hany of the existing lines
be abandoned because the areas .i;hey serve would be inundated.
lump sum cost allol-1ance was made for relocat ing the few lines
would remain in service.

"ould
A
that

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Relocations Associated wHh Oil Developm=nt. --The U. S. Bureau of
Mines in its report of J~1uary, 1961, estimated that existing oil
wells and probably most oil ru1d gas lines in the reservoir area
uould be abandoned by the end of 1965. The repor.i; shmTS that only
three out of 22 uells have made a profit. Hm,rever, early in 1961
a well uas bl"OUght in, ,.,hich p"'oduced initially 3~.0 barrels per
da;y. Also, permits to drill ailditional wells have been iSS\led.

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