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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Floodplain Information Report (Report) regarding the Town of Granada (Town), Colorado, was prepared by Colorado Water Conservation Board (Board) stall' in support of Floodplain Resolution Nwnber 94-356.03. The Town of Granada occupies a position in the Wolf Creek and .Arkansas River floodplain on the south bank of the Arkansas River in southeastem Colorado. The Town has suffered nwnerous floods from Wolf Creek. A particularly devastating flood on Wolf Creek inundated Granada in June 1965. Following the 1965 flood the Town of Granada requested help from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). Subsequent Corps investigations resulted in a nwnber of studies, reports, and actions. Two Special Flood H:l7.ard Information Reports prepared by the Corps in 1974 were the focus of Colorado Water Conservation Board action designating and approving, on December 4, 1974, (Floodplain Resolution Index Nwnber 39) and on February 26, 1975, (Floodplain Resolution Index Nwnber 40) 100-year floodplain areas along the Arkansas River and floodplain areas along Wolf Creek in the vicinity of and induding the Town of Granada. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published on July 18, 1975, an approximate floodplain map (Flood Hazard Boundary Map) for the Town of Granada. This map showed a major portion of the TovV11 as being in the 100-year floodplain and subject to the risk of flooding. Following the Corps investigations and studies, the Granada Flood Control Project (Project) was constructed. Construction was completed May 20, 1980. The official completion date was November 30, 1980 when seeding wa.s finished. The Project includes structures, levees, and channel improvements. The Federal Emergency ManagemeIlt Agency (FEMA) acknowledged the Project's protection and took action, em:ctive September 24, 1984, converting the Town to the Regular Program of the National Flood Insurance Program and finalizing the Flood Insurance Rate Map for the Town. This current Floodplain InformatioJ1 Report docwnents for the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the modified 100-year floodplain reflecting the benefits of the Project flood control structures, levees, and channel improvements near the Town. Recommendations are made to designate and approve the floodplain information in this Report and rescind portions of previous Board designations done prior to the Project.