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- 2 - <br />occurs once in evory five or six years, that major high Mater occurs every ten <br />to 15 yn rs or, in other vrurds, high water may flood two to three sections of <br />land aaad iauy do cur: °; u to roaadu an bridgaz oucer is 1U to 15 yeaara. !Mood <br />years of some magnitude appeared to ]:acre occurred in 1031, 1J25, 1:736, 1:; and <br />1949. . »oast damage appears to be crop da- ma; done by shallow flooding, of short <br />duration on sor,-,e two to tl z•ee sections. <br />if we aabourne 1,300 &areas flooded Curing the crop see son o:zce every 10 years and <br />estimate t ' Loss sat as ocr�zervut;ive f ik;ure ui -�(i0.00 per avz a there the total <br />would be 496,000.00 or *9,600.00 average per ;,rear which approximates t1M � 10,000000 <br />estimate f -1ven in the iafornuation with t;i.e a}z ,lic;ativn, Other losuen occuras <br />through bank outtinr and daarnake to fences, road, and bridges. Probably i.he local <br />estimate of 41,000.00 nor year is conservative on these daatAres. <br />There arc about 11,500 acrez of i.rrigatoc! 'Laznd, 5,500 aaoreas of dry crop land, e:nd <br />2,000 acres of grass land in the drainage, land ownership is almost entirely <br />private in character. <br />Soils oj� tho Little Lr <br />z C reels Watershed <br />Uplard coils are found over the mrjor part of the watershed with terrace e: td <br />bottomland soils occuring as relatively narrova strips along Little Pry Creek. <br />The most extensive area of terrace and L soils is found where the Creek <br />enters ':lie :'Iat..te 'Ki.vor valley. It, hovever, is of minor extent; compatred to the <br />acreage of the %atersrted as a. whole. <br />The upland soils t,azve dmveloped on the foll.ori�c; narant noterialss w1W blown <br />silts or silty loos, bind blown sandaz or sa 4y loess, tertiary outwash waterial, <br />shale arA sandstone. The terra"oe sand, bottoziland zo:!l s have. de>•velon- -+d lakr e,ly on <br />