FLOODC00179

• County: Morgan
• Community: Wiggins
• Stream Name: Kiowa Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Operations and Maintenance Manual - Kiowa Creek Flood Protection Project
• Date: 1/1/1989
• Prepared For: Wiggins, Department of Local Affairs
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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The project was designed by ARIX-Engineers-
Architects-Planners, Inc.. Greeley, Colorado under the
direction of the Town of Wiggins and the Colorado Water
Conservation Board. Funding for the project was obtained
through a one percent sales tax by the Town and State grants
from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs in 1986 and
1987. The Project lands were purchased by fee title from
private land owners. Long term leases for land were
obtained from the Burlington Northern Railroad and the
Colorado Department of Highways (see APPENDIX E).

The Project consists of the following project features:

o A right bank setback levee system extending upstream from
the eastbound lane embankment of the U.S. Interstate
Highway 76.

o Channel improvements extending upstream from U.S. Highway
6 to Morgan County Road uP".

o Closure structures for U.S. Highway 6 and the Burlington
Northern Railroad (BNRR).

o An elevated roadway section of Morgan County Road uP".

o Embankment protection for the BNRR.

o Special scour protection for the BNRR bridge.

o Erosion protection for the levee section.

The improved channel begins downstream of the intersection
of Morgan County Road "P" and Kiowa Creek and continues in a
Northerly direction along the original alignment of Kiowa
Creek to the U.S. Highway 6 bridge. At the intersection of
the Burlington Northern Bridge and Kiowa Creek, an area of

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