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I I Floodplain Information Report K:\35600\004\FLOODPLAIN INFORMA nON REPORT.doc 4 June 998 Floodplain Information Report K:\35600\004\FLOODPLAIN INFORMA nON REPORT.doc 5 June 998 I I We have endeavored to obtain an idea as to losses to crops, if any, from excessive rains, and find that there may be some wheat knocked down, some beet fields flooded so that the extent of damage may come out. We have heard little or no complaint. J.M. Anderson of Longmont reports that he has twenty-five acres of beets on Boulder Creek that was under water from two to three feet on Tuesday. I By the overflow of St. Vrain, Commodore Walker has lost all his buildings and his farm south of the sugar factory. Barns and sheds went first and then the house commenced to topple over and an attempt was made to save it but of no avail I t has been said that if the ditches had not carried off an immense volume of would have suffered a great deal more than it did. I I water before they overflowed Longmont The report came to Longmont Wednesday morning that the Foothills Reservoir was in danger, and that a large force of men with sacks had gone up to mend the damage. There was considerable truth in the rumor for it seems to be a fact that the ditch that carried the water to this reservoir was full and ordinary means of stopping its flow did not succeed, so the men were called upon with the sacks to go and stop the ditch, then the reservoir would be safe. The report was that the creek had changed its course and was flowing into the reservoir, which was not so. If it had been the reservoir would not have lasted five minutes. Highways leading into Longmont from all directions were under water but travel over them was possible at all times Saturday morning. A number of service stations and other stores on North Main Street and along the highway south remained closed when flood water covered the pavement from a foot to two feet in depth. I The big bride about five miles east of Longmont over the St. Vrain after its junction with Boulder The Peterson bridge a couple of miles east of Lyons is in bad shape one end of approach having been washed out the same way only worse. It is on the road from Lyons to Boulder and cannot be used. Creek has gone out. Another flood rolled into Longmont from the north, covered Roosevelt Park athletic water, filled basements in more than a hundred residences and places of business in Longmont. field with nearly three feet of the north and east sections of I A bridge over a dry creek on the main road south sunk, but some real Vrain. Scores of families along the St. Vrain River near Longmont were driven from their homes Friday night when that stream, swollen by cloudbursts in the mountain district, went out of its banks and flooded the low lands from First Avenue southo I trouble occurred at the main bridge over the St. I By Tuesday morning The auditorium has perhaps suffered the most. Right in line of the overflow of water from in the middle of a flowing lake, and the inside of the auditorium filled with water. more rain had fallen and the factory records showed a fall of moisture of 5.87 inches Scores Of Families Flee Homes In Night Longmont Times-Call Saturday, September 3, 1938 As Flood Strikes Longmont I the northwest The great mass of water was caused by the overflow of ditches which swept through the city from northwest to southeast, and after reaching Main Street ran down Fifth Avenue to the alley from Fifth Avenue to Fourth Avenue between Kimbark and Emery Streets. it was soon river dam south of the sugar factory, from which water is secured during the campaign had been washed out. The Traffic over the St. Vrain bridge south of the sugar factory was dangerous Saturday morning as be carried away. I I The heavy rain commenced about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, and by the next morning 4.4 inches had fallen and by Monday morning 5.39, according to the sugar company's records. The first section of rain was short but hard.. To tel stop. it Two bridges on Highway 52, constructed during the past year, have been washed out by the high waters making travel on this highway to the County line impassable. These bridges will have to be replaced. The approaches to the bridges were also damaged. But otherwise the oiled highway was not damaged. way feared might the story of the great rain of Friday, June 3, and the night following, one hardly knows where to commence or Two Bridges On 52 Are Out I I Excerpts from Friday - June the article appearing in: 0, 1921 The Great Longmont Ledger Rain 1938 FLOOD Longmont Times-Call Saturday, September 3, 1938 I 1 North St. Vrain & St. Floodplain Update V rain Creeks Town of Lyons North St. Vrain & St. Floodplain Update Vrain Creeks Town of Lyons