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<br />'- <br /> <br />FLOOD RELATED REPORTS <br /> <br />The following studies have been completed and are helpful in <br />fr=mulating a plan-of-improvement for mitigating flood and <br />eLosion impacts for the study reach. <br /> <br />1) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District; Special <br />F}r)od Hazard Imformation Report, South Platte River, Volume III, <br />L09an County - Sedgwick County, Colorado, June, 1977. <br /> <br />2) Colorado Department of Highways, District IV; Hydrology <br />ap'} Hydraulics Report, Bridge Replacement South of Crook" <br />c~~orad~lorado State Highway No, 55, June, 1985. <br /> <br />3) Colorado Division of Water Resources; Investigation of <br />C'C.,ok Problems Report, 1980, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District: Minutes <br />ot 404 Public Hearing Application No. CO 2SB OXT 2 006130 <br />No'/ember, 1984, <br /> <br />The Corps' Floodplain Report was prepared for the Colorado <br />~i;, ':er Conservation Board. The Report presents the hydrology and <br />h~Jraulic data for the study reach, The CDOH's hydrology and <br />h;0raulic report presented data for establishing water surface <br />e10vations for the 10-year, 50-year and 100-year flood events and <br />L',ld surveyed channel and valley cross-sectional data. The <br />n. "aining two reports provided useful basic data and an <br />a~~ounting of local sentiment regarding flood issues. <br /> <br />FLJODING CHARACTERISTICS <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />The Town of Crook and the immediate vicinity experiences <br />flooding an~ groun~ water problems nearly every year. The area <br />e~gerienced major flooding in 1965 and 1973. The high spring <br />sr,owmel t runoffs of 1983 and 1984 caused severe erosion, <br />sulimentation, and high groundwater problems. The Town of Crook <br />h25 been identified by Federal Emergency Management Agency - See <br />E~ibit No. I - to be entirely within the lOa-year inundation <br /> <br />Zv.le. <br /> <br />-2- <br />