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Show Flood Prevention in Arkansas Valley ENUlNErlltS r llic federal reeln-tuatlon reeln-tuatlon service Imve completed a preliminary report, based on u linMty, tentative survey, on Hood prevention pre-vention for the city of Pueblo and the Arkuncus river valley. A ropy of the report bus been received ly Secretary of thi! Interior Full, antl u wt-oiul copy lias licen sent to tho mayor of I'uetilo. Tim engineers, .litines Munn und J. L. Savage of the Denver reclnmutlon olliee, have suggested several different pluns nml combinations of plans for Hood prevention which would entail estimated costs ranging from $I).(XXJ,-tKW $I).(XXJ,-tKW to sgl7.ntHI.tKJH. One plan for the Arkansas river calls for Hood detention storage of JlU.tKK) acre feet with such repairs to present levees anil channel ns are required re-quired to provide- a wife capacity or Jfi.OOO second feet through I'ueblo. Another plan provides for the en largement r the chnnucl through Pueblo mid for u concrete channel. Hank protection Is one of four plans suggested for Fountain creek. The engineers make It plain that their present recommendations nre bused on fragmentary (lata nvntlnblo at this time and that complete study of the problems Involved will require much more time and more accurate hydrographlc aud topographic datn than Is now at Itnnd und also much detailed engineering work. They found it dearth of accurate topographic top-ographic und other essential data on which to buse even & preliminary study. All the alternative plans which Include In-clude Hood detention storage with possible pos-sible use of the Steel Hollow reservoir site, would benefit property interests In the Arlcunsnj. valley below Pueblo, while the alternative plati embracing onl) channel enlargement or hnnk protection through Pueblo would not protect property Interests In the valley val-ley below Pueblo. "Due to the limited storage possibilities possi-bilities and ns a very little. If any, water Is available for storage In the Arkansas river above Pueblo, there docs not appear to be any project of developing Irrigation storugo with economy In conjunction with Hood detention de-tention storage," reads the report. |