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• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

Gold Star Canyon
Floodplain Information Report

Mesa County, Colorado

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Figure 12: Downstream side of Broadway (Hwy 340) culvert

projecting out of roadway embankment. Wetland vegetation

is thick at the outfall.

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Figure 10: Dirt Road over 21" RCP immediately
downstream of the Redlands First Lift Canal.

Figure 11: Upstream side of Broadway (Hwy 340) culvert 7'
diameter CSP with 6"xlYz" annular corrugations projecting
out of roadway embankment. There is a sag in the roadway
at the culvert to contain overtopping flows.

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Figure 9: Irrigation turn-out at Redlands First Lift Canal
supplying a base flow to the lower reach which supports a
dense growth of vegetation.

of Gold Star to the Colorado
floodplain.

Heavily vegetated incised channel near the
confluence with the Colorado River.

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incised channel near the downstream end
of the study.

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Figure 13: View of the Gold Star channel downstream of

Broadway.

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