Show Additional Height to i Boulder Dam Proposed WASHINGTON April 21 The 21 The Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado River Board of Engineers and Geologists today recommended Increasing in increasing In In- creasing the height of Boulder Doulder dam by 2 25 feet In ina a report submitted to Secretary of the Interior Wilbur The Increase would provide additional addition addition- al flood lood protection It would raise the dams dam's height from 1207 1201 feet to 1232 feet above sea level It would In no noway noway noway way change the current estimates estimate of I cost Major General William L. L Sibert told told Secretary Wilbur I The board found that while present plans for tor the dam would meet all aU power requirements and satisfactorily control all aU ordinary floods a repetition of the great flood of 1884 sigh seriously serious serious- ly endanger the dam structure Although a flood of this magnitude has only once in the last 50 I years Sibert said the possibilities of its recurrence is nevertheless a constant constantI menace The people of the lower I valley have ha demanded a more effective control he said The board emphasizes the fact that tha its approval of the Increase In height heigh of the proposed dam is based baaed solely on the desirability of more effective flood control and that the development of the power should never be a factor inthe in inthe the control of the flood storage base base- In the reservoir the report stated Without encroaching upon the power powel development provided for the Increased ed flood control can sufficiently be ac accomplished accomplished ac- ac accomplished by merely Increasing the tho height the board stated The board agreed with recommendations recently made by the Bureau of Reclamation engineers who proposed that the cres crest be raised from an elevation of 1207 feet above sea level to 1232 feet I This Tills would provide an additional flood control storage of feet making malting the total flood control storage acre feet Sibert told Wilbur |