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<br />within the non-damaging flow range. However, by storing inflows, Pueblo Dam did reduce the <br />amount of flow reaching downstream areas. The incremental damages prevented by restriction <br />of these flows was not evaluated. <br /> <br />St Charles Reservoir: This project is located south of Pueblo, but is not actually on the St <br />Charles River. Therefore this facility did not prevent flood damages during this event. <br /> <br />La Junta Local Flood Protection Levee: Prior to being overtopped and eventually being <br />breached, the local levee prevented damages to 421 homes, 20 businesses, 1 public structure, and <br />57 barns, detached garages, and sheds. The residential structures and their contents have an <br />estimated value of $4,979,000. The commercial structures and their contents have an estimated <br />value of $676,000. The public structure and its contents have an estimated value of $33,000. <br />The outbuilding structures and their contents have an estimated value of $622,000. This is based <br />on an approximate delineation of the flood plain for an 8-year flood event for a total value of <br />$6.31 Million worth of property. The evaluation was made as part of the economic justifIcation <br />analysis for repair of the levee under the Public Law-84-99 program. <br /> <br />Las Animas Local Flood Protection Levee: The levee experienced erosion of at one <br />location, but provided protection during the entire 1 O-year to 25-year flood event. The levee is <br />designed to contain the 200-year flood event. The levee protects 1,093 homes, 123 businesses, <br />63 public structures, 27 apartments and 262 sheds, barns, and detached garages. The residential <br />structures and their contents have an estimated value of $39,080,000. The commercial structures <br />and their contents have an estimated value of$16,036,000. The public structures and their <br />contents have an estimated value of $37,062,000. The apartment structures and their contents <br />have an estimated value of $3,254,000. The outbuildings and their contents have an estimated <br />value of$I,On,OOo. These values are based on an approximate delineation of the 200-year flood <br />plain for a total value of$96,745,000. During this lO~year to 25-year flood event, the damages <br />prevented totaled approximately $7 Million. The evaluation was made as part of the economic <br />justifIcation analysis for repair of the levee toe under Public Law-84-99. <br /> <br />Trinidad Reservoir: The project is located upstream of Trinidad and therefore the large <br />Purgatoire River watershed downstream drains uncontrolled into Las Animas. The small inflow <br />captured at Trinidad Reservoir did not appreciably prevent any flood damages during this flood <br />event. <br /> <br />John Martin Dam: The project is estimated to have prevented $49.9 Million worth of <br />damage at an estimated peak inflow of30,000 c.f.s. on the Arkansas River. <br /> <br />Fort Lyons Levee: The Fort Lyons Levee prevented damage to the Fort Lyons Veterans <br />Hospital. <br /> <br />Post Flood Assessment Report <br /> <br />Chapter 4 - Flood Damages Prevented and Sustained <br />32 Draft Revised 09/09/99 <br />