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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Creek Dam. About $600,000 <br />Total estimated damages were <br /> <br />site of the now existing Cherry <br />damage was inflicted on Denver. <br />$1,000,000. <br /> <br />(4), Flood of 5 A~st 1945. A rainfall storm over a <br />widespread area caused considerable flooding south of the Denver <br />area on 5 August 1945. Severe flooding occurred in the <br />Franktown-Parker area. The gaging station at Melvin, upstream <br />from the then existing Kenwood Reservoir, recorded a peak dis- <br />charge of 10,700 cubic feet per second. Outflow from the <br />reservoir was held to 4,500 cubic feet per second. Although <br />this release was augmented by contribution from Goldsmith Gulch <br />downstream from the reservoir, channel and valley storage reduced <br />the peak discharge to about 3,100 cubic feet per second. Total <br />damages were estimated to be $200,000. <br /> <br />(5) Flood of 16 and 17 June 1965. In the Denver area, <br />up to 14 inclhes of rain were recorded over the Plum Creek basin <br />during the afternoon of 16 June 1965. From 1 to 10 inches fell <br />over the Cherry Creek basin. Major flooding occurred along the <br />main stem of Cherry Creek from the vicinity of Franktown to the <br />Cherry Creek Reservoir. At the Cherry Creek Reservoir, the <br />peak discharge was 56,000 cubic feet per second. About 2,720 <br />acres were inundated in this area. One life was lost during the <br />flood on Cherry Creek. DlIIJUl,ges were about $1,300,000. The <br />Cherry Creek project contained the inflow from the flood and <br />prevented an estimated $130 million in dlllJUl,ges in the Denver <br />metropolitan area. <br /> <br />12. EXISTING IMPROVEMENTS <br /> <br />a' Sand Creek basin. <br /> <br />(1) Federal. Kelly Road Detention Dsm is a small <br />flood-detention structure on Westerly Creek, a left-bank tribu- <br />tary of Sand Creek. ~e structure, which is located on the north <br />edge of LOWl'y Air Force Base, was completed by the Corps of <br />Engineers in 1954 at a cost of $227,000. It was constructed <br />under provisions of Section 212 of the Flood Control Act of 1950. <br />The project consists of a small compacted-earthfill detention <br />dam located near the junction of the southwest city limits of <br />Aurora and the southeast limits of the city of Denver. It pro- <br />vides flood protection for portions of Aurora and Denver. <br /> <br />(2) Non-Federal. Over the years, channel improvements, <br />spoil bank levees, and bank protection measures have been <br /> <br />16 <br /> <br />. <br />