Levees / Colorado / 2205000030

Holly, Wild Horse Canyon and Arkansas River Levee

Holly, Prowers County, Colorado. On the Arkansas River and Wild Horse Creek. USACE records 930 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
930
USACE figure
Structures
656
in the leveed area
Levee length
4.2
miles, plus 0.03 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.86
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
2205000030
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
06/25/2014
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Holly
Waterway
Arkansas River and Wild Horse Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Albuquerque
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
8
Congressional district
04
Consequence estimate
$127.1 million
Flood of record
01/01/1987

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 2205000030. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.