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• Year: 2002
• Title: Yampa and White River Basin Facts
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Yampa and White River Basin Facts Sheet
• Publications - Doc Type: Basin Fact Sheets

Elk Creek (Photo courlesy of Barbara Goodrich)

Wet and Dry Periods

Every year, Colorado experiences at least one 100-year
flood somewhere in the state. Colorado's total flood
losses to date have been documented to be $4.9 billion.
The basins' most recent major flood event was
May 30-June 5, 1997. The estimated total historic flood
damages for these basins have been $5.5 million to date.

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Major Imports into the Basin

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Major Exports from the Basin

Name

Diversions
(acre-feet)
2,446
973
232
3,651

1 * Stillwater Ditch
2 Sarvis Ditch
3 Dome Creek Ditch
Total

* Numbers in the above table correspond to numbers that
accompany arrows on the basin map (p. 5).

Source: Division 6 1998 Annual Report, 10-year averages

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Trapper Lake (Photo courlesy of Barbara Goodrich)

Winter 1974
Ice Jam floods Meeker to
Rangley White River;
May-June 1974
Upper Basins flood

Jan-Feb 1960
Ice Jam floods
Little Snake River
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Yampa River
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