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PROJECT SUMMARY As a result of the severe flood risk in the Town of Wiggins, a levee and channel project W&8 formulated to provide 100-year flood protection for the community. The project was funded through a one percent sales tax by the town and state grants from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs in 1986 and 1987. project lands were purchaset by fee title from private landowners. Long term leases for land were obtained from the Burlington Northern Railroad and the Colorado Department of Highway's. The Project consists of the following features: o A right bank set back levee system extending upstream from the eastbound lane of U.S. Interstate 76, o Channel improvements extending upstream from U.S. Highway 6 to Morgan County "Road "P", o Closure structures j'or U. S, Highway 6 and the Burlington Northern Railroad (BNRR), o An elevated road section o~ Morgan County Road "P", o Embankment protection for ~he BNRR, o Special scour protection for the BNRR bridge, and o Erosion protection for the levee section. The improved channel begins downstream of the intersection of Morgan County Road "P" and Kiowa Creek and continues in a northerly direction along the original alignment of Kiowa Creek through the BNRR bridge to the U.S. Hiqhway 6 bridge. The channel and the BNRR bridge were excavated to improve flood carrying capacitities. The three (3) mile levee system ~~s constructed west of town in the right overbank of the Kiowa Creek 100-year floodplain. The south end of the levee is tied into high ground approximately 3500 feet south of County Road "PH. At county Road "pH the road was elevated to the top of the levee to minimize human intervention during times of flooding. AT County Road "PO, the levee proceeds northerly to the BNRR tracks where a closure structure with stop logs is constructed. The closure structure, when closed with stop logs installed across the tracks, prevents flood waters from entering the town during times of high flows. -7-