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I I Floodplain Information Report K:\35600\004\FLOODPLAIN INFORMATION REPORT.doc 18 June 1998 Floodplain Information Report K:\35600\004\FLOODPLAIN INFORMATION REPORT. doc 19 June 998 I Victims of worst damage were bridges throughout Boulder County and on over when the St. Vrain continued to cut relentlessly into the approach at south of the Third Avenue. By 8 a.m. waters had chewed through make the cut across the highway a complete one. nto Weld County to the east. Closed ts north side was the bridge on the Hover Road, t and was threatening to he blacktop surface, I I Rain flooded Longmont out bridges, cut away moisture for 18 hours n a deluge throughout Wednesday night and into the morning hours today, leaving washed roads and fills, flooded basements, collapsed ditch fills, and pouring well over four inches of St. Vrain Creek east of Lyons, 1957. I I I Longmont Times-Call Thursday, May 9,1957 The home during the His mother 1957 FLOOD from which he rescued the Children, Lilllie and Jimmie Vigil and Cresencio Arguello, as flooded with water first inundation of the southern part of Longmont Saturday. The boy's father is employed in the mountains. was attending the midnight movies. Rain Floods Many Longmont Homes, Roads And Bridges I Johnny, who told officers "the water was getting high in the house," at 120 Pratt Street, donned his father's hip boots and carried three youngsters on his back to safety shortly before midnight Saturday. I I I Johnny Lopez, 11 week-end floods. Longmont Times-Call Wednesday, June 8, 1949 Supply of water to the section south and east of Longmont was out early Sunday when high waters of the St. Vrain twisted the supply line where it crosses the river a mile south of the city. year old Longmont boy, was recognized today by Longmont Longmont Boy Recognized As Hero Of Flood police officers as the hero of the I The Burlington railroad track to Lyons was rendered useless when away the railroad bed in the section east of Lyons. The bridge was gone, also at the west side of McCall Lake northwest of Hygiene, and the north end of the old iron bride, east of Longmont Filter Plant, was cut through by St. Vrain River waters. I the St. Vrain spilled over Up the North St. Vrain canyon County road crews reported, the bridge on the old road near the power completely, and probably will have to be rebuilt in its entirety. ts banks and washed plant More than 12 inches of water threatened to close West North Avenue just beyond of Batchelder School was out, as was the one into Niwot, west of Highway 287. the bridge was gone, and the road closed. The South Sunset Drive bridge, over traffic, with a 20 foot cut across the highway on the south approach. I was out he Hover Road. The bridge north At Crane Hollow, west of Hygiene, the St. Vrain, also was closed to I morning. Left Hand Creek, where waters were rushing uncontrolled, had taken out all irrigation headgates along the stream bed and water was running rampant over pasture and farmland southwest of Longmont and west of Niwot this I Longmont's only way of travel to the airport is south of Longmont across the St. Vrain bridge, which is intact, then west on the Nelson Road and north to the airport. The bridge across the St. Vrain on the airport road, just south of Ninth Avenue, downpour, but about noon as a tree stump caught in midstream and changed approach began to wash and shortly thereafter the approach began to wash and shortly began to crumble. appeared to survive the course of the the overnight water, the north thereafter the approach I I North St. Vrain & St. Floodplain Update V rain Creeks Town of Lyons North St. Vrain & St. Vrain Creeks Floodplain Update Town of Lyons