Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers
on Civil Works Activities
Fiscal Year 1973
Department of the Army Corps of Engineers
Extract Report of Walla Walla District

Pullman, Palouse River, Washington

Location. On South Fork Palouse River and Missouri Flat Creek at Pullman in eastern Washington.

Existing project. Provides for flood control at Pullman, Washington, by channel rectification and intermittent levee construction along 1.36 miles of South Fork Palouse River and 0.42 mile of Missouri Flat Creek. Existing project authorized by Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944, based on plans in H. Doc. 888, 77th Cong., 2d Sess. Estimated Federal cost of completed project was $2,240,000 in July 1963. Estimated non-Federal costs are $136,000 for rights-of-way and street, railroad, and bridge modifications.

Local cooperation. In addition to usual requirements, local interests were to make street, railroad, and bridge modifications for construction of project. Local interests stated their inability to meet those requirements, and the project was classified inactive in 1964 and reclassified to deferred category June 1969.

Operations and results during period. A restudy is underway to determine if an economically justified plan of improvement could be developed that would be generally acceptable to the local people and within the authorized project scope. The Pullman Flood Protection Committee, formed in 1969, has become the formal contact group for city planning. In a related study, the Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources used the Pullman area to test methods for flood plain management. A draft of that study was submitted to IWR March 1973.

Condition at end of fiscal year. Restudy report is nearly complete.