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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amount to about ~590,000 with the total being segregated as
follows:

Flood control benefits
Allowance for future development
Enhancement of land values
Irrigation benefits
Fish and Wild life benefits
Recreational benefits

$224,100
24,500
26,000
290,000
13,000
12,000

The ratio of benefits to costs is 1.07 to 1.00. Since
Fish and Wildlife and Recreational benefits would accrue

without additional expenditures for those purposes, no

costs have been allocated to them.

In addition, the

report cites non-evaluated benefits, such as secondary

benefits resulting from increased crop production, prevention

of loss of life and enhancement of the general welfare.
With respect to negative benefits the report states
that some cultivated land is located in the reservoir area,
that there is an item in the estimate of project costs for
the purchase of reservoir lands sufficiently large to
cover the cost of developing new cultivated lands elsewhere,
and no loss of crop production would result from the
project. An amount of $1,000 has been added to annual
charges to account for possible loss of taxes.
The report also states that the reservoir would overlie
some coal deposits and might prevent feasible access to
other adjacent deposits, and that an item has been included
in the estimate of project costs sufficient to compensate