FLOOD03000

• County: Statewide
• Stream Name: South Platte
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Water and Related Land Resources Management Study Volume V - Appendix H
• Date: 7/14/1980
• Prepared For: South Platte and Tributaries
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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In response to a resolution adopted on 4 March 1947 by the

Committee on Public Works of the United States Senate, the then

existing Denver District, Corps of Engineers, made a preliminary

examination of the flood problems in Aurora. The report on the

investigation, dated 15 April 1949, recommended that a survey

scope study be made.

A Survey Report on Flood Control for the city of Aurora,

Colorado, dated January 1952, recognized a flood problem along

Westerly Creek between Lowry Air Force Base and Sand Creek. The

report recommended the construction of a detention dam on Lowry

Air Force Base. Kelly Road Dam, at the downstream end of Lowry

Air Force Base, was approved for construction by the Office of

the Chief of Engineers under authority of Section 205 of the 1948

Flood Control Act, as amended. The dam was constructed on

Federal land (Lowry Air Force Base) with approval of the Air

Force. Total cost of this project was $227,000. Of this total,

Federal costs were $150,000 and non-Federal costs were $77,000,

which included downstream channel improvements. The project was

completed in November 1953 and transferred to the local sponsor,

the city of Aurora, for operation and maintenance in February

1954.

In response to the 4th Indorsement of a letter from the

Office of the Chief of Engineers to the Division Engineer,

Missouri River, dated 8 January 1968, subject, Summary Report on

Review of Design Features of Existing Dams, the Omaha District

completed a report entitled "Adequacy Report, Kelly Road Deten-

tion Dam." The report concluded that urban development upstream

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