WSP08048

• File Number: 8180.800
• Description: Purgatoire River Project
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 6/15/1954
• Title: Review Report on Survey for Flood Control on Purgatoire River - Colorado - Summary and Recommendations of Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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MEMORANDUM

June 15, 1954

TO:

Ivan C. Crawford, Director

FROM: R. M. Gildersleeve, Chief Engineer

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Review Report on Survey for Flood Control
on Purgatoire River, Colorado
(Transmitted to Colorado Water Conservation
Board under date April 23, 1954)

SUBJECT:

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Summary and Recommendations of Report
A survey report on a channel improvement project was

transmitted to Congress January 24, 1944, by the Secretary

of War, and was published as House Document No. 387, 78th

Congress, 2nd Session. The project was authorized sub-

stantially in accordance with the House Document, by

Public Law 534, 78th Congress, 2nd Session, approved

December 22, 1944. The total cost for this project was

set at $1,035,000 of which the cost to the United States

would amount to $909,000 and to local interests $126,000.

The House Document reported on possible alternates to

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the recommended floodway, including a dam 107 feet above
streambed at the Sopris site above T~inidad for flood
control and irrigation, to provide flood protection equal
to that of the maximum flood of record (September 1904),
and make available about 5,500 acre feet of additional
water to irrigators annually.

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