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<br />,Table 5 , '
<br />ACRES FLOODED IN SOUTH PLATTE BASIN
<br />
<br />Sub-Basin
<br />
<br />Acres Flo'oded"
<br />
<br />South Platte River
<br />Plum Creek
<br />Bijou Creek
<br />Kiowa Creek
<br />Badger Creek
<br />Beaver Creek
<br />Pawnee Creek
<br />Cache LaPoudre River
<br />CommEwche Creek
<br />Cherry Creek
<br />Platte River (North Platte, Nebr. to Gothenburg, Nebr.)
<br />Sand and Toll Gate Creeks
<br />Misce~laneous streams and creeks
<br />
<br />132,160
<br />3,570
<br />38,630
<br />1,500
<br />2,850,
<br />19,235 '
<br />4,000
<br />6,620
<br />2,860
<br />2,720'
<br />15,400
<br />970
<br />16,470
<br />
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<br />Total Acres Flooded
<br />
<br />252,925
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<br />32. CHARACTER ,OF FLOODING
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<br />a.' ,General description. In terms of total damages, the
<br />damages inflict,ed by the flood runoff of, the northern tributaries
<br />of the South Platte River we,re 'limi,ted to, road closings and moderate
<br />damages to farmlands, 'roads; bridges, and'Urban property. The, flood
<br />damages experienced on the streams which received the full brunt of
<br />the storm runoff defy adequate description without an intimate
<br />knowledge of pre-flood conditions and'the ,benefit of personal inspec~.
<br />tion. In the Plum Creek basin, interstate highway bridges and,sections
<br />of highway, which by reasonable standards ,were adequate to pass major
<br />flood flows, were demolished by the extremely high discharges and
<br />stages., Heavy ,road constructionequiplllent such as road graders, huge
<br />dump trucks, and cranes which had be~n parked'in the Plum Creek ,flood, .
<br />plain'were almost completely buried under masses 'of sediment. Farther '
<br />downstream, farm buildings which were located as muc,h as a quarter of
<br />a mile ,away from the stream btink were carried away~ New stream '
<br />channels appeared where the buildings formerly stood. As the flood
<br />proceeded downstream, heavy ,debris consisting of hug~ uprootedtr~es,
<br />parts ,of structures" cars, trucks, .fuel tanks, ~d trailers, ,was, '
<br />carried on the crest of ' the flood wave and slammed into other
<br />structures. When the Plum Creek flood entered the South Platte,River
<br />i1; ; spread out into the wider South Platte valley . While this valley
<br />storage served to, redUCe the flood crest, the damages inflicted on
<br />metropolitan Denver suggested initially that rio appreciable reduction
<br />in the flood crest 'had occurred. Houses '. bridges, trucks, trailers
<br />and cars, as well as large quantities ,of material from' commercial:and
<br />industrial inventories were added to the'destructive force ,of the
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