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63. Summary of damages.— Data concerning damages from floods prior <br />to 1933 are very meager, and have not been tabulated. <br />SM-11ARY OF FLOOD DA11AGES , BE -.E1 CREED BASKS <br />:Buildings and: Roads & :iscel - <br />- <br />Year Land :Improvements : Bridges : Idunicipal : laneous Total <br />s <br />1933 ; 9,700 : 29,900 : 4g,400 : 24,200 : = 111,200 <br />1934: 7,300 : 17,100 a 64,loo : 500 : g ,000 <br />1938 : 47,800 : 16g,400 : 353,900 : 3,000 : 75,000 : 648,000_ <br />TOTALS: -63, goo : 215,400 : 466,3oo 27,700 ; 75,000 s 94g,200 <br />This would indicate an average annual loss, for the 6-year period, 1933 to <br />1939, inclusive, amounting to ap;?roximately $141,000. In addition, 17 lives <br />have been lost in the same period. <br />0. DAATAGE FROM FUTU?.D FLOODS <br />64. General.— The topograph?T of the Bear Creek Basin is such that <br />its development has been necessaril7r limited to the narrow valleys along <br />the several streams. The encroachment on the streambeds of the highways, <br />railroad, and buildings in the resort centers have made them vulnerable to <br />flooding. The railroad line has been abandoned and the tracks removed <br />west of Fort Logan so that there is no possibility of damages to this item <br />during future floods. <br />65. Both State Highway !To. 93 and U. S. Highi,ray 'To. 6 and No. 40 <br />have been relocated higher up the side of Mt. Vernon Creek Canyon so that <br />they are not in danger of future floods. State Highway ITo. 74 through Bear <br />Creek Canyon is at present being reconstructed, and it is believed will be <br />reasonably safe from all future flood hazards. <br />66. During the flood of 1939 a large pavilion and dance hall was <br />completely destroyed by fire and several other smaller buildings were <br />demolished by the floodwaters at Idledale. To date these buildings have <br />not been replaced. As the basin is primarily a recreation area, further <br />development of the resort centers is to be e:Tected. If, in the develop- <br />ment, a restriction is not placed upon buildings encroaching on the flood <br />plain of the stream, an increase in damage to this item will result. <br />»20 -- <br />