FLOOD00087

• County: Logan
• Community: Crook
• Stream Name: Local Drainage
• Title: Reconnaissance Report for a Sub Drain and Flood Control Project
• Date: 12/1/1988
• Prepared For: Crook
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Project

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community. The community is surrounded by thousands of acres
of irrigated cropland and ranchland. Flood-related problems
from the South Platte River have adversely impacted the economy
of the area.

Major transportation systems which serve the area are U.S.
Highway 138. Interstate 76. State Highway 55 and the Union
Pacific Railroad. The embankments and bridges of these traffic
systems are factors in determining flow regimes of floodwater.
The Colorado Division of Wildlife owns and operates the
Tamarack State wildlife Area. The development within the
Wildlife Area includes fencing. wood and herbaceous plants.
heavy growth of grasses. trees and underbrush for wildlife.
Water development activities include construction of flow
deflection dikes and dams to form small ponds for wildlife
watering.

FLOOD RELATED REPORTS

The following studies have been completed and are helpful
in formulating a plan-of-improvement for mitigating flood and
sub-surface impacts for the study reach.

1) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Omaha District; Special
Flood Hazard Information Report. South Platte River. Volume
III. Logan County - Sedgwick County. Colorado. June. 1977.

2) Colorado Department of Highways. District IV; Hvdroloqv
and Hvdraulics Report. Bridge Replacement South of Crook.
Colorado. Colorado State Highway No. 55. June. 1985.

3) Colorado Division of Water Resources; Investiqation of
Crook Problems Report. 1980.

4) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Omaha District: Minutes
of 404 Public Hearing Application No. CO 2SB OXT 2 006130
November. 1984.

The Corps' Floodplain Report was prepared for the Colorado
Water Conservation Board. The Report presents the hydrology
and hydraulic data for the study reach. The CDOH's hydrology
and hydraulic report presented data for establishing water
surface elevations for the 10-year. 50-year and 100-year flood
events and included field surveyed channel and valley
cross-sectional data. The remaining two reports provided
useful basic data and an accounting of local sentiment
regarding flood issues.

Muller Engineering Company. Inc.. Denver. Colorado under
contract to the Town of Crook. Colorado has prepared design
drawings and specifications for the construction of the South
Platte Levee system. Upon the receipt of construction funds.

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