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<br />- FLOOD HISTORY - <br /> <br />Newspaper accounts and other historical records of floodin9 in the Golden area <br />date as far back as 1864. A number of the accounts pertained to floodin9 on <br />Clear Creek with little or no mention of flooding on Tucker Gulch or Kenneys <br />Run (e.g. floods of 1864, 1888 and 1933). Although no stream flow records <br />exist for either Tucker Gulch.or Kenneys Run, other reports of past flooding <br />did give a clear picture of the flood damage potential of these two normally <br />dry streams. The newspaper articles and past reports researched as part of <br />this study provided information regarding six major flood events on Tucker Gulch <br />(Golden Gate Canyon) and Kenneys Run over the past 110 years. The floods of <br />1872, 1896, 1941, 1948, 1965 and 1973 were reported as follows: <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br /> <br />Flood of July 14, 1872 - Rocky Mountain News, July 16, 1872 <br /> <br />"Those who have ever witnessed a waterspout will bear testimony to its <br />appall ing nature. One of these curious phenomena occurred on the Central <br />Stage Road in Golden Gate Gulch, 4 miles above the town of Golden. on <br />July 14 about 4 o'clock.... Presently a violent commotion, with confusion <br />of sounds like the tumult of the elements, was heard high up in the <br />mountains. Then came a tremendous torrent of water, bearing trees and <br />boulders, and calculated to astonish and terrify by its magnitude, <br />force and violence. The horses, seeing that they were to be sacrificed <br />to the prodigious volume, took fright, and shying to one side upset the <br />carriage and all occupants were pitched into the bottom of the gulch. <br />In an instant, as it were, and before they [Mr. Jack Virden and family] <br />could recover their feet. the wave, with a perpendicular breast of 10 or <br />12 feet, was upon them and licked them up like the sands of the gulch. <br />'~rs. Virden clung to her husband, and he, by miraculous chance, 90t hold <br />of a limb and held fast until the flood subsided..." <br /> <br />Flood of July 25, 1896 - Colorado Transcript, July 29, 1896 <br />"Nothi ng 1 i ke it had ever bl!en wi tnessed before..." <br />"Before the rainfall even partially ceased, the water in the creek began <br />