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Vh?OhT Jk FIELD L;.iCA 11NATION <br />LITTLE DRY CHRR,K WATERSHED <br />.:ovember 5 to 5, 1954, inclusive. <br />of 'artys C. 11. Mitchell, State Conservation Rng.ineer, <br />(P. :. AaCrirmon, Sail Conservationist, and <br />Lill kaCorkle, Area Conservationist, assisted by <br />WX Ourk Q:heldon, and <br />-.obort lecola, Uoil Saientast. <br />Desorpti -X i Atershed aad - 'roblems <br />Little bry Creek originates about 2 4 miles southeast of the town of Erie, <br />metanderiN in a nort.heastorly diroo - -ion about 15 miles to the South !Platte kiver. <br />Elevation sit i soureo in about 5,250 feet and at its Junction with the Platte <br />River erlovation is about 4,850 feet. Gradient is thus about 25 feet per mile. <br />The watersised encompasses about 30 square miles and the flood plain involved in <br />over bank flooding is estim&ted at not over three square miles. <br />I he channel itself is out quite deeply in some r ea ches, particularly where <br />�,aste water from tl* Farmers Feservnir and Irrigation Iti.tch and the lirartner <br />Ditch s; >ills Into it. In some of the lower land the channel becomes a - rasfsy <br />slough and in soap Places ehannol strairhtening by farators hens nrovent.ed some <br />danage. The wiiole draina,oe does not fjrn- ^ar to he an extremely sorious flood <br />producing watershed except as cloudburst: rains in combination with watte water <br />may produco danayinr. 1AAde of mater. <br />No records of floods could be discovered licit sorie seven nersons were interviewed <br />and questioned. All but one of these, then president of the Platte Valley SCD, <br />bad lend or Factually fanned in the lower reaches of the watmrshed. The rr <br />result c.' '.lassie interviews appears to scat up the fact that minor high water <br />