FLOOD00810

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Title: Bear Creek Flood - Colorado and Kansas
• Date: 5/14/1951
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

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STATE OF COLORAlXl

Colorado Water Oonservation Board

Denver, Colorado

July 20, 1949

. To The Chief of Engineers
Department of ,the Army
Washington, D. C.

Sir:

On behalf of the State of Colorado, and pursuant to Section I of the Act of
December 22, 1944 ($8 Stat. 887), there is here,vith transmitted the comments, views,
and recommendations of the State of Colorado concerning the proposed interim report
of the Chief of Engineers and the reports of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and
Harbors and of the District and Division Engineers, on a survey of the Arkansas
River, with a view to local flood protection at Pueblo, Colorado.

These comments. views, and recommendations are submitted under the auti'lority
of chapter 26S. Session Laws of Colorado of 1937 creating the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board and defining its functions and in accordance with the designation
oJ such Board by the Governor, pursuant to Section I of thE! Aot of DecE!mber 22.
1944 (S8 Btat.887). as the official State agE!ncy to act in such matters. '

1. It is noted that the Chief of Engineers concurs in the views and recom-
mendations of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors. which read, in part,
as follows~

"The Board accordingly rE!cornmends improvement of the
Arkansas River to provide additional local flood protection for
the area subject to inundation by backwater at Pueblo, Colorado,'
by the construction of a levee E!xtE!nding from the north abutE!ment
of the Santa FE! Avenue bridge to high ground adjacent to the
Missouri Pacific Railroad right-of-way, the levee to have a lO-foot
'crown width and a 2-foot cover of riprap on the river side; and a
drainagE! structure, with flap gatE!s, under the leveE!; generally in
aocordance with thE! plan of the district engineE!r and with such
modifications thereof as in the discretion of thE! Chief of Engineers
maybe advisable at an estimated cost to the United States of
$209,000 for construction, subject to the'provision that responsible
local interests give assurances satiSfactory to the Secretary of the
Army that they will: (a) provide without cost to the United States
all land, easements, ,and rights-o, f-way necessary for construction of
the project, when and as required; (b) hold and save the United States
free from damage due to the construction works; (c) protect the flood
oarrying capacity of the flooclway, between river miles 403 and 408,

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