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Pond (No.) Pond 378-I <br /> Technical Guide <br />• ~ee~ie~ tV <br /> Statewide <br />Definition <br />A water impoundment made by 2. The product of the storage <br />constructing a dam or an times the effective height of the <br />embankment or by excavating a pit dam is less than 3,000. Storage <br />or dugout. In this standard, is the volume, in acre-feet, in <br />ponds constructed by the first the reservoir below the elevation <br />method are referred to as of the crest of the emergency <br />embankment ponds, and those spillway. The effective height of <br />constructed by the second method the dam is the difference in <br />are referred to as excavated elevation, in feet, between the <br />ponds. Ponds constructed by both emergency spillway crest and the <br />the excavation and the embankment lowest point in the cross section <br />methods are classified as taken along the centerline of the <br />embankment ponds if the depth of dam. If there is no emergency <br />water impounded against the spillway, the top of the dam is <br />embankment at spillway elevation the upper limit. <br />is 3 ft. or more. 3. The effective height of the <br /> dam is 25 ft. or less, and the dam <br />Purpose is hazard class <a). <br />To provide water for livestock, Condition where practice applies <br />fish and wildlife, recreation, <br />• <br />fire control, crop and orchard - <br />General. Livestock Water tanks <br />spraying, and other related uses, and Erosion Control Dams shall <br />and to maintain or improve water meet the recuirements of the <br />quality. Colorado State Engineer. They are <br /> permitted only on water courses. <br />Scope the channels of which are <br /> determined by the State Encineer <br />This standard establishes the of Colorado to be normally dry. <br />minimum acceptable quality for the <br />design and construction of ponds Site conditions. Site conditions <br />if: shall be such that runoff from the <br />' design storm can be safely passFd <br />1'. Failure of the dam will not through (1) a natural or <br />result in loss of life; in damage constructed emergency spillwav. <br />to homes, commercial or industrial (2) a combination of a vrincipal <br />buildings, main highways, or spillway and emereency spillway, <br />railroads; or in interruption of or (3) a principal spillway. <br />the use of service of public <br />utilities. <br />C~ <br />SCS, Colorado, January 19E9 <br />