FLOOD01056

• County: Jefferson
• Title: Floods in the Bear Creek Watershed
• Date: 1/1/1990
• Prepared For: Jefferson County
• Prepared By: USFWS
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

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(ot May 22) but pegged on 410 lL .tel'ld1 drinle, wUh nn OCCl\1I10nal
brillle,nt spurt, 1nto th~ evening. and indeed, h .10111 llIOnotOn-
ouslypatteringnt. *. 4 a.llI. (1:3723).

Th, Roc'q J.!ount<dll. J'e1l'l! at .W.loy 25. 11)76. give, tMe reaoro ot the storm
as furnished by the dgnal servicel

J'rOl':l 10 p.m. l.t~.y 21, to 5:1~3 a.m. May 22. the C-lll::1unt of
1"".J.inf:;ll lI'M 2.10 1nchel!; from 5143 n.m. to 2:43 !l.m. 1.1.1\722,
3.10 inches; 2143 p.m. to 9105 p.m. .~~e date. 1.30 inChes;
o.nd. from; 9108 p.m. yay 22 to 3 a.l!I. \.la;r 23, 0.20 inches, lll!lklng
a total of 6.70 imche1J in 29 hour..

No lnforcatlon is avallnble to thaw hoy this nood COlllDUefJ
with la,ter' floods e:-:cept that all raporh indioate the greatellt flood ever
kl'.OW%l occu.rred. Jul;1 24-25, 1596. AlsO, dnoe tba enewline ext!lndeo. dom
'Cle~r Orao'!!: to the cnuth of Beaver Brook. 1t 19 Ukel,. that a oonsiderl1ble
percentage of the preoipitat1on on Bear Creek ,;,aa- also in the torm of snow.
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.'-""'''' . The flood 01' My 26, 1885 1111!! deeorib ed. b7 the Denver Roclq l.roUlP
, ta1n lIews of Jul7 21 t 1355, as followsl
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'1h9 flood Wl!.S tee result at llo oloudburst on Ilear Crel'.k.,. .. ·
Tho st. Patrick's Catholic ~~tuil Benevolent Sooiety held a picnic
at Uol'rhon ;rest&rda,y and got caught in a flood on Boo.r Creek.
'!'he pavil10n on G- sort 01' hlM<\. on the right ba.nk of the creek
was _had a~, as well t!.lI tr.e bridge wrich connectll it with the
llla1nllUld. · ... ... the wbole perty got back to Denver .e,!Dl;r.

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Regardir.g the nood ot- July 20, llSEo, \he lI.oelQ" Vounta.in liowl of
Jul7 22, 1&&6, .tatedl

, 'rbe heavhst rain and hail storm t'hat had 8"l'er been kn01i!l
on llenI' Creek since the uttlEl!'\ent of that 'D1M8 occurred there
. 7estard!l:,;r (July 20). The whole valle;;" eeeIMd e. ,heat of raging
nter. ltX-eovernol' "S:'r!U1S' ranch seemed l!lo vast llll."'&. Th. bl'i~ell
trOl1l it'l"ans r/l."'lch to tb.$ Flatte are 0.1.1 swept awq and the crOllS
in WUlY instancell are a total lou.

The lams paper ot July 23. llls6, ca.rries a put1al contradiction o! th1a
report, 'however. It statuI

'l'he report telegraphed in f'ro:ll Idaho Springs that 0.1.1 tho
'brldges on Bear Creek were 1r!tshed fJ:!Im.Y b:f a nood in the oreek
'l.'uesdn.y (Ju1;r 20), 1r~ untrtls. Count,. Clerk Al 'l'o'll11.send. of
Golden. CWlle 1n fro:a :B$IU' Creek yesterday a.n.d sayll that the
bl'l~es on the creek are all in :plaoe end bave not been ll'luhe4
ue7.

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