FLOOD00098

• County: Eagle
• Community: Vail, Eagle County
• Stream Name: Gore Creek
• Title: Floodplain Information Report
• Date: 6/1/1975
• Prepared For: Eagle County
• Prepared By: HYDRO-TRIAD, LTD.
• Contract/PO #: &&
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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6. Daily precipitation totals equaling two inches of water equivalent,

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some portion of which will probably be hail pellets, are expected

in the high elevation area of the western slopes of the Gore Range.

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7. Peak discharge of streamflow for the peak hour from summer thunder-

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storms is not likely to be greater than the average daily flow on
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the peak snow melt day.

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Runoff yield from summer thunderstorms is not expected to be greater

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than .10 inch average flow for a 24-hour period.

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9. Heavy fall storms which may cause flood conditions in southwestern

Colorado do not have corresponding high precipitation amounts

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falling in the Gore Range area.

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