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<br />4. Current Flood SituatiO!!.' <br /> <br />a. Grenada is afforded minilnal protection by an exillt., <br /> <br />ing levee around the vest end north sections of tOiltl. Capacit:l' of <br /> <br />the existing levee system that extends f.rom about 1/2 mile south <br /> <br />of U.S. Higbw~ 50 to the AT&SF Rai1'W'~ bridge is about 10,000 <br /> <br />e. f.s. This section of the levee i,; the main protection for Granada. <br /> <br />The levee continues from the no1-'th side of. the AT&SF Railv~ bridge <br /> <br />northeast to U.S. Highw~ 385 b1-'idge, then turns east for about 1.-,1/2 <br /> <br />miles. The capacity of the rigl1t bank levee north of the ra:llroao. <br /> <br />bridge is about 10,000 e. f.s . 'l'he capacity' of the existing lef't <br /> <br />bank levee innnediately north of the railroad bridge is 6,000 c. f ,s . <br /> <br />The lowest capacity of the left ba.nl<: leyee is 1,000 e.r.s. ~[he <br /> <br />highw~ and railroad bridges 'r~trict hi,gh flows, <br /> <br />b. The levee benn neE'ds \ridening. and slopes re'Worked in <br /> <br />numerous locations, From the ra.ilroad bridge nor1;h, portions of <br /> <br />the left bank levee have eroded 8>7811. Eight hundred feet north of <br /> <br />the railroad bridge the "X-Y" eellal oyerflmr enters the 1.olf Creek <br /> <br />C'nannel. The overflow channel has eroded around the existing drop <br /> <br />structure until now it is umrorkable ,md. will have to be replaced. <br /> <br />The right bank levee at the lover end of' the project must be re.. <br /> <br />built to protect the tw'o sewage lagoons. Wolf Creek has no define,i <br /> <br />Channel to the Arkansas River after the flood vater is defleete,i <br /> <br />around the town. Local interests hay€> built portions of a right <br /> <br />bank levee for an outfall channel, h'",ever,' it is inadequate and <br /> <br />not continuous to the river. <br /> <br />App. 3 <br />10 <br /> <br />.:i-JY,;:_<- <br />