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<br />"Deluge of rain at Wray, starting Monday night about 7 p.m. with <br />a cloudburst and continuing intermittently throughout the night. <br />The Government rain gage registered 3.56 inches of rain, most <br />of which fell within the first 30 minutes. The bridge fill on <br />the lower part of Adams Street was washed out. Water went over <br />lower Main Street and flooded the ball diamond. No water entered <br />any buildings and damage was confined mostly to the street at <br />the north side of the Gardner Locker Building." <br /> <br />"High waters covered the lower part of town from heavy rains. <br />Water reached flood proportions west and south of Wray. The rain <br />began at 4 a.m. at Wray and came in a downpour. 1.25 inches was <br />registered at Wray. West and south the rain was much heavier <br />with as much as six inches reported. Water reached the doorway <br />at Bills Motor, the Wray Implement Company, Stedwells, and Gardners, <br />but did not enter any buildings." <br /> <br />"More than three inches of rain fall at Wray with up to 5 inches <br />being recorded west of Wray. The lower part of the city park <br />was under water. The machinery lot north of the highway, where <br />the Wray Implement Company has a fleet of combines, was covered, <br />but the machinery was settling (sic) out of the water." <br /> <br />2.4 Flood Protection Measures <br /> <br />Planned effective flood damage prevention measures have not been <br />taken in Wray or Yuma County with regard to high flows occurring <br />on the North Fork Republican River. Businesses and residences <br />in the flood plain have raised floors as a result of past flood <br />experiences and are effectively protected from low to moderate <br />flooding, but no general protective measures for extreme events <br />have been accomplished. Flooding from hillside runoff, which <br />had been a problem because of inadequate channels, has been relieved <br />since 1961 by the completion of a watershed treatment project <br />which included six retarding dams. These dams are located in <br />or near the City of Wray on canyons that are tributary to the <br />North Fork Republican River. The dams have a total capacity of <br />340 acre-feet and were designed to control the runoff from a 100-year <br />rainfall Over the 3-square-mile drainage area above the structures <br />(Reference 4). The uncontrolled outlets through the structures <br />were designed to limit the outflow to the downstream channel capaci- <br />ties. The project was designed by the U.S. Soil Conservation <br />Service under sponsorship of the Hale Soil Conservation District <br />and the City of Wray. <br /> <br />Levees built in 1934 by the city, with aid from the Works Progress <br />Administration, consist largely of earthen embankments. The longest <br />of these levees lies on the northern bank of the North Fork Republican <br />River and runs along the Burlington Northern Railroad from approxi- <br />mately 600 feet upstream of the corporate limits downstream to <br />approximately 150 feet west of Adams Street. <br /> <br />7 <br />