FLOOD00922

• County: Statewide
• Community: Pipestone Minnesota
• Title: Problem Identification Report and Appendixes Pipestone Creek Minnesota
• Date: 4/1/1995
• Prepared For: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Prepared By: Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Project

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PIPESTONE CREEK AT PIPESTONE, MINNESOTA
PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION REPORT

SECTION 205 RECONNAISSANCE SruDY

INTRODUCTION

The city of Pipestone is located along the Main Ditch in Pipestoue County,
Minnesota. The Main Ditch and County Ditch A are manmadc drainage ditches that
convey surface water runoff from the watersheds which are adjacent to the city of
Pipestone. The Main Ditch has also been referred to as Judicial Ditch Nwnber I in past
studies and by local officials; however, this report will refer to this ditch as Main Ditch.
Pipestone Creek is an extension of Main Ditch and is a natural channel that begins within
the Pipestone National Monwnent. Figure I presents a vicinity map for the Pipestone
area Flooding has occurred periodically along the Main Ditch and County Ditch A as
recently as May and July of 1993. The city of Pipestone sustained damages in several
locations during the 1993 events. This Problem Identification Report addresses
background information, existing flood problems within the city of Pipestone. and results
of reconnaissance-level analyses.

This federally funded reconnaissance-level study was initiated in response to a
letter dated 6 July 1993 from the city of Pipestone. Minnesota to the Omaha District
Corps of Engineers. The Omaha District requested and received funds to initiate a
reconnak<;ance study of flood problems on both the Main Ditch and COlDlty Ditch A in
the vicinity of Pipestone.

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