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possible desirability of building 12 dams, with 10 other sites suggesting themselves as alternatesAlthough
the reservoir requirements are based on predicted water supply requirements of the area in the year 2010—50 years from now—the Engineers say the building of new reservoirs should begin now and be completed within 15 years.
To care for water and pollution abatement, assuming the communities also develop fully their own sewage-treatment systems, would require, an annual investment of $15,000,000 over the 15-year period, it is estimated, with the yearly figure going to $26,000,000 if flood-control and recreation features are included in the projects. Present thinking of the Engineers does not call for major new hydroelectric develops ment in the Potomac Basin, it has been stated.
Where would the dams be located?
Of particular interest to the 7th Congressional District would be these:
1. On Opequon Creek, to create a relatively long and narrow reservoir with a surface area of 1,900 acres, providing a new water source for the City of Winchester.
2. On the South Fork of the Shenandoah River, above Front Royal, to supply that area from an 1,850-acre reservoir.
3. On the Middle River in Augusta County, creating an irregularly-shaped three-pronged reservoir of 5,700 acres to give assured water supply to Staunton. Waynesboro and other communities.
4. On the North River above Bridgewater, with Harrisonburg benefitt;ng from the 3.100-acre reservoir.
Among the alternate proposals, the Army Engineers suggest the possibility of a major impoundment on the Shenandoah River, with a dam in Clarke County creating a lake of 9,900 acres, in the event their recommendation for damming the Potomac above Great Falls is not followed. (This would be a modification of a Shenandoah River dam project which the Engineers put forward in a 1946 report at which time it was proposed to place the dam over the West Virginia line at Millville.)
The Engineers contend that serious thinking about dam-building must be started at once throughout the Potomac River Basin, if water shortages are to be avoided in coming years. Popula
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