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<br />South
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<br />Table 3
<br />Annuli I PellkOlscharge for the 1/2/
<br />Piette River lit Julesburg, Colorado ...
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<br />Flood Descriptions
<br />The following flood accounts lire typlClll
<br />have occurred along the South Platte RIver In
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<br />of flood events which
<br />llnd lldJacent to Logan
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<br /> Date Olscharqe
<br /> (c.f.s.)
<br /> 6 J"" 1904 6,500
<br /> " Jo. 1905 12,400
<br /> " Jo. 1909 6,040
<br /> " "" 1910 18,800
<br /> , Jo. 1914 13,400
<br /> 1 Jo. 1917 9,100 I
<br /> 16 Jo. 1921 30,800
<br /> 18 Jo. 1923 !6,OOO
<br /> 10 Jo. 1924 11,000
<br /> " Jo. 1926 5,400
<br /> 2 Jo. 1935 31,300
<br /> 10Sep 1938 7,980
<br /> " "" 1939 9,330
<br /> , "'Y 1942 16,200
<br /> 28 Jo. 1947 13,000
<br /> " Jo. 1949 16,800
<br /> 21 May 1957 8,160
<br /> 21 May 1958 7,510
<br /> 10Jun 1961 7,120
<br /> 20 Jo. 1965 37,600
<br /> 16 '09 ,%8 12,200
<br /> 13Mlly 1969 10,600
<br /> 18Jun 1970 9,960
<br /> II May 1973 22,000
<br />1/ From U.S.G.S, Gllglng Stlltion loceted 21~ teet downstrellm tromthe
<br /> O. ,. Highway 385 bridge, .9 mile southeast of Julesburg. SInce
<br /> " "'Y 1973, e supplementllry stream gege ,; loceted 800 feet down-
<br /> stream from the U.S. HIghwey385 bridge.
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<br />and Sedgwick CountIes, but are, by no means, a complete hIstory of
<br />such. They lire presented here to give some Insight as to the source
<br />and magnitude of floodwaters from the South Pllltte River effecting
<br />Logan and Sedgwick Counties,
<br />1844 - Floodwaters purportedly covered the bottom lands
<br />In the Denver vicinity from bluff to bluff.
<br />1864 - Three separate floods caused by heavy rains over
<br />SnOW occurred durIng May and June on the South Pllltte River. A
<br />resident of Plllttevllle In Weld County later described the flood of
<br />mld-May et that loclltlon as the largest flood he had observed prIor
<br />to 1925, Flooding occurred In I lite May llnd llgaln In early to mid-June.
<br />The South Platte River flood WaS llugmented downstream from Denver by
<br />tributary In/low from both the mountaIn and plains trlbutllrles.
<br />1876 - The flood of late May 1876 resulted from raInfall
<br />onsr\Owpack.ltwasreputedtohllvebeenthehlghestfloodslnce
<br />1864 In lit leest the Denvererea.
<br />1894 - Heavy relnfllll over the Front Range of the Rocky
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<br />OnlytooseyearshavingllPElllkdischllrgeoI5,OOOc.f.s.orgre..ter
<br />arelndlcllted.
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<br />~U~t3!~5 c",u~(!d floodl~g on '!'~C Sou'!'~, r:",tto River In :a'!'e ~ay am:
<br />early June. Floodwaters purportedly covered hundredS of acres In the
<br />Brush vielnlty. Old timers said the South Platte River was "fully
<br />two miles wIde", The Fort Morgan Times Q/ S June 1894 stated that
<br />"for 24 hours on 2 June, the flood touched the caps on the top of the
<br />bridge piling".
<br />192I-HeavyralnfllllovermuchoftheupperSouthPlatte
<br />River basin cllused flooding In Weld County in early June, Between
<br />Srlghton and Orchard,the wooden bridges were impassable; twower"
<br />destroyed and the approaches to the others were dest~yed for II
<br />dlstllnce of several hundred yards. At Fort MQrgan the water surfac~
<br />crest ""s comperable to thet of the flood of 1894. The diSCharge
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