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. . . C0646 affice of the District Engineer Albuquerque District Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army Albuquerque, New Mexico June 30., 1953 SUBJECT: Review Report on Survey for Flood Control on Purgatoire (Picket Wire) River, Colorado THRU: Division Engineer Southwestern Division Corps of Engineers Dallas 2, Texas TO.: The Chief of Engineers Depart~ent of the Army Washington 25, D. c. IN l1WDUCTIaN 1. Authority. - The following review report is made in compliance with the provisions of a resolution adopted /iJarch 20., 1945, by the Com- mittee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, U. S., as follows: REsaLVED, BY THE CO/iJI1ITTEE aN FLOOD CaN'IRaL, HaUSE aF REPRESENTATIVES, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors created under section 3 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 13, 190.2, be, and is hereby requested to review the report on the Purgatoire (Picket Wire) River, Colorado, published in House Document Numbered 387, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, with a view to determining whether any modification of the recommendation contained therein should be made at this time in order to provide flood pro- tection for Trinidad, Colorado, and at the same time make more water readily available for agricultural and industrial uses. 2. The survey report reviewed herein was submitted under authority of Sections 6 of the Acts approved June 22, 1936 (Public No. 738, 74th Congress, H. R. 8455), and June 28, 1938 (Public No. 761, 75th Congress, 3d Sess., H. R. 10.618). A single report covering the two areas specified in the foregoing Acts, Purgatoire (Picket Wire) River ahd Long Canyon, Colorado, was authorized by the Chief of Engineers on August 6, 1938. At the time of the report the District Engineer found that none of the .