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C150033
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North Fork River Improvement Association
Contract Type
Grant
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Delta
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<br />:3 <br /> <br />constantly being made to straiten the channel <br />by the use of dynamite. <br />The force of the explosions is felt for miles (Paonian). <br />People went to work on the river using dynamite to keep the river in a safe channel. It is hard <br />to imagine how dynamite was use to channelize the river, But at the time ofthis publication there <br />were no earth- moving machines such as backhoes or bull- dozers. People relied on dynamite <br />experts to move large quantities of earth. These experts were quite skilled and accurate. There <br />work can still be viewed today in the older canals and ditches. <br />The effort to save a portion of the town of Paonia at this time might be a large cause of the very <br />straight, and very entrenched river that flows through the town ofPaonia today. The section of the river <br />flowing through the town of Paonia today could hardly in a five hundred year flood event reach the <br />height that it did. The reason for this is because the river has entrenched, or sunk into the ground so <br />much that it would take a tremendous amount of water for the river to escape its banks. <br />The section of river adjacent to Paonia is so different today for several reasons. One of the <br />reasons is because of the lessening of distance the river has to travel to get from point A to point B. The <br />river used to meander through Paonia. It used to flow right through the area known as North Fork <br />Trailer park, then back to the area it is found today, and then meander again just west of the third street <br />bridge. <br />When these m~:anders were taken out of the river, the rivers shear stress (or the rivers ability to shear <br />off the river bottom) was increased. After the river was straightened, the river bed through Paonia has <br />become narrower, deeper, 'and steeper each time we have a flood. A narrower channel means deeper <br />water, and deeper water means that the water on the bottom of the channel is heavier which movers <br />more sediment. So the river has even more ability to move even more sediment down stream, a <br />phenomena known as positive feedback. The growing shear strength of the river has sucked allot of <br />the cobble size material down stream and deposited it down a few miles towards midway causing other <br />problems discussed later in this paper. <br />The story ofth~: river through Paonia is just one example of the cause, and effect relationship that <br />exists between the past and the present. There are other sections of the river that are mentioned in the <br />Paonian Newspaper during the time of the 1912 flood. There are two sections of the river that I also <br />found to be recorded in photographs. These sections of the river will be the focus of this paper. <br /> <br />Field Research:: compare and contrast two sections of river that are apparently close to <br />opposite from one another. <br />For this project, I have chosen two sections of the river, each being approximately one mile <br />long. Both of these sections are mentioned in multiple newspaper articles and both had very <br />good pictures take of them just after the 1912 flood. <br />The first section of the river is considered to be one of the more stable s€ction of the river. <br />This is the section of the river North-East ofPaonia, from White Buffalo Ranch, or the Farmers <br />ditch diversion to the black bridge, formally known as the Heddles bridge. <br />The second section of the river that I have elected to focus this project on is the section <br />midway between Paonia and Hotchkiss. This section is located from The Campbell Ranch to <br />Phil's Auto. This section of the river is one of the more unstable sections of the river. <br />Section 1 <br />The first section; from White Buffalo Ranch down river to the Heddles Bridge is one of the <br />most stable section of the river in the study reach. In the 1912 newspaper "The Paonian" an <br />article on May 28, 1912 brings up the concern "for the bridge that is partially completed North <br />
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