FLOOD05707

• Designation Number: 356.01
• County: Prowers
• Community: Holly
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Resolution - FPR 94-356 - FIS - Town of Holly
• Date: 6/1/1994
• Designation Date: 7/1/1994
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, completed
construction of flood control structures, including levees and channel improvements, to protect
the City of Las Animas, the Town of Holly, and the developed area of the Town of Granada as
listed on Table 4, attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein; and

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WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took actions with
regard to said Flood Hazard Boundary Maps for the Town of Holly, for the t oWIi. of Granada,
and for the City of Las Animas as described in Table 5, attached hereto and by this reference
incorporated herein; and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board received in May, 1994, from the United States Army
Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, technical information and documents associated with
the construction of flood control structures, including levees and channel improvements, to protect
the City of Las Animas, the Town of Holly, and the Town of Granada from IOO-year and larger
flood flows from the streams and rivers listed on Tables I and 2; and

WHEREAS, new floodplain information reports, based on said Corps information, have
been prepared by the Colorado Water Conservation Board for each of the above-mentioned three
communities, as listed in Table 6, attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein; and

WHEREAS, the new floodplain information reports for the Town of Holly and the Town
of Granada provide, on the basis of revised hydraulic analyses reflecting the effects of said Corps
flood control structures, detailed floodplain information for the stream reaches listed in Table 7, .-
attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein; and .,

WHEREAS, the new floodplain information reports for the City of Las Animas and the
Town of Granada provide, on the basis of revised hydraulic analyses reflecting the effects of said
Corps flood control structures, approximate floodplain information for the stream reaches listed
in Table 8, attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein; and

WHEREAS, the IOO-year floodplain on Wild Horse Creek and the Arkansas River near
the Town of Holly has been modified to exclude the IOO-year flood from the present corporate
limits of the Town and to confine floodwaters to that portion of unincorporated Prowers County
that lies west and south of the Corps left (east) bank levee along Wild Horse Creek and south of
the Corps left (north) bank levee along the Arkansas River, as shown by the IOO-year floodplain
in the Floodplain Information Report for the Town of Holly, dated June 1994; and

WHEREAS, the IOO-year floodplain on the Arkansas River near the City of Las Animas
has been modified to exclude the IOO-year flood from the corporate limits of the City and to
confine floodwaters to that portion of unincorporated Bent County north of the City between the
Corps right (south) bank and left (north) bank levees along the Arkansas River, as shown by the
IOO-year floodplain in the Floodplain Information Report for the City of Las Animas, dated July
1994; and

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