FLOOD10403

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Colorado's 1997 Flood Season In Review
• Date: 8/1/1998
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: Riverside Technology, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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Table of Contents

4.10-6
4.10-7

4.11-1
4.11-2
4.11-3
4.11-4
4.11-5
4.11-6

4.11-7

4.11-8

4.11-9

4.11-10
4.11-11
4.11-12
4.12-1
4.12-2
4.12-3

4.12-4
4.13-1
4.13-2
4.13-3
4.13-4
4.13-5
4.13-6
4.13-7
4.14-1
4.14-2
4.14-3

4.14-4
4.14-5

4.14-6

4.14-7
4.14-8

4.14-9
4.14-10

Horse Creek North of Cheraw.....................................................4.10-13
Remnants of Bridge #166 Crossing Fort Lyons Storage

Canal......................... ........ ......... .............. ..... ..................... ..............4.10-13

Phillips County Vicinity Map ........................................................4.11-2
Phillips County Affected Watershed ............................................4.11-3
Phillips County Precipitation Map................................................4.11-9
Flooding Along Sandy Creek at Highway 59............................4.11-10
Flooding Along Unnamed Tributary to Sandy Creek..............4.11-11
Frenchman Creek Flooding Downstream of Holyoke
Looking Southwest Over Fish Pond and the Sewage

Lagoons ........ ................... ...... ................... .................... .......... ......... 4.11-12

Frenchman Creek Confluence With Unnamed Drainage
Near Notters Dairy ........................................................................4.11-12
Damage to Railroad Embankment Parallel to Highway 23,
9 Miles Northeast of County Road 51.........................................4.11-13
Damage to Railroad Embankment Near Intersection of
Highway 23 and County Road 51...............................................4.11-13
Flooding Along Highway 23 South of Amherst .......................4.11-14
Flood Hydrograph for Frenchman Creek in Holyoke..............4.11-17
Phillips County Flood Inundation Boundary ............................4.11-18
Prowers County Vicinity Map .......................................................4.12-2
Prowers County Precipitation Map ..............................................4.12-6
Daily Average Streamflow From August 1997 Rainfall
in Wild Horse Creek Above Holly..............................................4.12-10
Prowers County Damage Areas ..................................................4.12-11
Routt County Vicinity Map ............................................................4.13-2
Routt County Affected Watershed ................................................4.13-3
High Flows in Elk River ..................................................................4.13-5
Flooded County Road and Pasture Near Elk River ....................4.13-6

Flooded Farm ...... ................... .......... ................ .................. ..............4.13-7

Inundated Pasture ..........;.......................... ........ ....... .......................4.13-7

Routt County Damage Areas .........................................................4.13-8
Weld County Vicinity Map ................................... ......... .......... ...... 4.14-2
Weld County Precipitation Map........................... ................... ......4.14-8
Flooding Along Sheep Draw Looking Northeast
From 4th Street Bridge ..................................................................4.14-14
Damage to 83rd Avenue Bridge ..................................................4.14-15
Flooding Northeast of 6th Avenue North of
Came la Poudre River ...................................................................4.14-15
Flooding Downstream of Bridge Along Came la Poudre

River ................................ ...... ........... ..... ...................... ........... .......... 4.14-16

Debris on F Street Bridge ..............................................................4.14-16
View From 10th Street Bridge Looking South Along

Sheep Draw......... ............................... ................. ....... .....................4.14-17

71st Avenue Bridge Along Sheep Draw.....................................4.14-17
Weld County Affected Watershed Map
Northwest of Hudson ...................................................................4.14-19

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