FLOOD03288

• County: Morgan
• Community: Wiggins
• Stream Name: Kiowa Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Kiowa Creek at Wiggins Flood Warning System
• Date: 9/1/1990
• Prepared For: Wiggins
• Prepared By: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

section (2) contains hydraulic information for t:he "Town of
Wiggins, Colorado Operation and Main'tenan,:e Manual", January
1989 ("Wiggins 0 & M Manual, 1989"). This section consists
of the primary hydraulic products reqwasted in 'the CWCB
Plan-of-Work (See Appendix B). It contains rating curves,
travel times, and the rela1:icmships betw,aen flooding at the
warning sites and at Wiggins"

section (3) details the flood warnin'9' obj ,actives. The method
by which flood warning time 1,vas defined, as well as 1:he use
of the flood warnings are discussed in this section.

section (4) describes the flood detection
section describes the "nuts and bol'ts" elf
mated flood detect,ion gage.

equipment.
building an

This
auto-

section (5) describes the opl~ra1:ion of au'tomated flood detec-
tion gages. This section provides detailed information on the
operation of a flood warninq ,rage and sugl3"estion~; on how the
information provided by the .,age can be used.

section (6) de,scribes the long term main'tenance and testing
that is require,d for both the automated and manual components
of the flood warning system. Details of how to service the
equipment and conduct routine drills are contained in this
section.

section
trict on
system.

(7) contains the recommendations of the Omaha Dis-'
the configuration and operation of the flood warning

Appendix A contains a discussion of the methodology
the hydrologic and hydraulic analyses conducted to
this report.

used in
develop

Appendix B cont:ains the corr"ilspondence that defined the scope
of work for this report.

1.5 Flood Warning Gage Locations
Two flood warning gage 10':atio!1s for the town of Wiggins
have been ident:ified. The upstream gage location is on the
downstream side of the Highway 52 bridge in the
SWlj4SElj4,Sec.5,~'lN,R61W in weld County, Colorado. The
downstream gagE' would be 10ca1:ed on the downstream side of a
County road bridge in the NWlj4SW1j4,Sec.31,T3N,H60W, at the
Weld - Morgan County Line. 'rhe locations of both gage sites
are shown in Figure 1.

2. REQUESTED HYDRAULIC PRODUC'rS
This section contains the ma'terial requested in 'the CWCB
document "State of Colorado Corps's section 22 Planning Pro-
gram, Plan-of-Hork". A copy of this document is contained in
Appendix B.

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