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<br />. 0;]0994 <br /> <br />t <br /> <br /> <br />CORPS OF ENGINEERS. U. S. ARMY <br /> <br />BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS <br />WASHINGTON 25,0.0. <br /> <br />ENGBR <br /> <br />26 March 1954 <br /> <br />824. 02 (Purgatoire (Picket Wire) River, Colorado) <br /> <br />Subject: Purgatoire River, Colorado <br /> <br />To: Tbe Chief of Engineers, Department of the Array <br /> <br />1. This report is submitted in response to the following resolution <br />adopted March 20, 1945: <br /> <br />Resolved, by the Committee on Flood Control, House of <br />Representatives, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers <br />and Harbors created under Section 3 of the River and Harbor <br />Act approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to <br />review the report on the Purgatoire (Picketwire) River, <br />Colorado, published in House Document Numbered 387, Seventy- <br />eighth ~ongress, Second Session, with a view to determining <br />whether any modification of the recommendation contained <br />therein should be made at this time in order to provide <br />flood protection for Trinidad, Colorado, and at the same <br />time mAke more water readily available for agricultural and <br />industrial uses. <br /> <br />2. Purgatoire River, formed by the confluence of North and Middle <br />Forks in the' Culebra Range of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern Colorado, <br />flows 186 miles northeasterly to the Arkansas River near Las Animas, Colo- <br />rado. This report covers the upper Purgatoire River watershed above the <br />mouth of San Francisco Creek, at mile 122. The area includes the city of <br />Trinidad, Colorado, at mile 157. Important tributaries above San Fran- <br />cisco Creek include Wet, Zarci11o, Burro, Lorencito, Long, Raton, and <br />Reilly Canyons; South Fork; and Chicosa and Frijole Creeks. The terrain <br />-fill 1"'1'0'0'.:1,(1 Anti mnl1nt.Ainn"~ 1.J'ARt. nf' rr.,..-IninAn Ann A "1"\""""'" "n'",,~"'e 8""""".... <br />