WSP05425

• File Number: 8101
• Description: Arkansas River Basin Description
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 9/1/1962
• Author: High Plains SCD
• Title: Watershed Work Plan - Limon Watershed Protection Project - Elbert and Lincoln Counties - Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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PROJECTS OF OTHER AGENCIES

The Limon Watershed lies within the High Plains Soil Conservation
District. The District and their cooperators are carrying out an
effective and active soil and moisture conservation program with
technical assistance furnished by the Soil Conservation Service.
Seven of the eight landowners are District Cooperators; two of these
have basic plans. The sponsors will have at least fifty percent of
the agricultural lands within the watershed covered by basic plans
prior to the beginning of construction.

The Town of Limon and the Colorado Department of Highways
have been working to improve the Limon Watershed channel through
town. Recently. the Colorado Department of Highways completed a
highway urbanization project along the main street of Limon. The
most important phase of this project was the installation of a larger
bridge for Highway 40-24-287 and the clean-up and enlargement of the
channel for several hundred feet above and below the highway,

The TO\ffi of Limon is presently enlarging and realigning the
channel below the Rock Island Railroad tracks in order to improve
flood capacities and flood-flow characteristics adjacent to the
sewer lagoons in the lower end of the watershed, Under the town
street program. Limon has commenced the replacement of four of
the channel culverts at the street crossings in the !1iddle and
East drainages in the north part of town. These culverts previously
restricted the annual flows, The improved capacity will now
provide some additional measure of flood protection prior to the
project. After the project is installed. the channels will have
capacity to carry the principal spillway releases and the estimated
routed 100-year flood runoff fram the unreservoired areas.

The present proposed location of Federal Interstate Highway
70 crosses the watershed from east to west just north of the city
limits of Limon and south of the three proposed floodwater-
retarding structures, The Highway Department estinlates it will
be five years before this section will be built.

If the watershed project is approved and construction commenced
before final desi~s are made for the Interstate bridges, definite
savings will be made in the costs of needed bridges across the
three channels and this constitutes an additional benefit of the
watershed project,