FLOOD04019

• County: Yuma
• Community: Wray
• Stream Name: North Fork Republican River
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Floodplain Information Report
• Date: 6/1/1969
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Contract/PO #: &&
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

Wray gaging station located approximately 5 miles west of Wray.
This station was established in March 1937 and operated to
October 1946. InOctober1951.thestationwasreestdblishedata
location 3/4 mile downstream of the original location and operated
until October 1957. Reestablishment of the station was a9a1n made
for a two year period from October 1962 to October 1964. The sta~
tlon is presently discontinued.

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Floodrecor<ls. It is unfortunate that flood records
are not available for documentation 1n the vicinity of Wray. At
the Colorado.Nebraska Stdte l1ne station only one flood event has
been recorded in its 37 year history. Th1s flood event had a crest
stage of less than one foot above flood stage. At the Wray, Colo-
rado, station, operation of the stat10n had been discontinued
during all periods of heavy rainfall.

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July 1932 flood. View of Main Street look1ng
north toward 2nd Street,

Historical floods. The flood problems affecting the
city of Wray in the past rely completely upon histor1cal accounts.
Extracts from newspaper articles, Interviews with residents, and
review of previoys stYdies were used to compile the flood history
of Wray. Unfortunately, some 1nstances of flooding in Wray were
oversnaooweo by extreme events occurring in neighboring basins.
Table 2 summarizes the known historical storm rainfall data at Wray.
F1gures 1 through 4 show the extent of flooding from two past
events at Wray.

Fig. 2. M&y1958flood. Floodwaters upstream of the
ij. S. Highway 385 bridge.

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