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<br />~ <br /> <br />The Corps of Engineers has proposed several flood control <br />measures for the Arkansas River below Pueblo Dam. These include <br />a dam on Fountain Creek, flood-control levees along the Arkansas <br />River, and, most important to Las Animas, the construction of a <br />nine-mile long levee around Las Animas. The Las Animas levee <br />project has been authorized by Congress and is presently awaiting <br />the acquisition of right-of-way by the Arkansas Valley Conservancy <br />District, the local sponsor. <br />The major feature of the Las Animas levee system is an earth- <br />fill dike with a length of 50,700 feet and beginning at Highway 50 <br />west of Las Animas in Sect. 10, T.23S, R.53W. The levee would <br />extend around the city on the north and end it miles east of the <br />city. The design capacity of the floodway channel would be <br />140,000 cfs. This levee would completely eliminate any flood <br />hazard by the Arkansas River to the City of Las Animas. How soon <br />the levee will be built is an unanswered question. <br /> <br />10 <br />