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JUL 26 1966, JUL 27 1966 Engineers Inspect Chatfield Dam Site A team of engineering specialists in dams and reservoir construction of the Army Corps of Engineers made a detailed field inspection Tuesday afternoon of the proposed site for the $80 million Chatfield flood control project on the South Platte River south of Littleton. Studying plans at the site of the west end of the dam spillway are, from left, Reginald Barron, soil engineer for the office of the chief engineer of Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C.; Jim Watson, Omaha, Neb., division assistant chief engineer, and J. O. Ackerman, chief engineer for the Missouri River Division in Omaha, who led the team during the damsite inspection. Credit: Denver Post (Denver Post via Getty Images)