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<br />10 <br /> <br />ALLUVIAL FAN FLOODING <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />FIGURE I-I Alluvial fan flooding: High-velocity flows battered homes in Ocolillo Wells, California, during the <br />September 1976 flood caused by Tropical Storm Kathleen (top). Fast-moving floodwaters .caused scour, erosion, <br />and structurnl damage 10 numerous Rancho Mirage. California, homes in September 1976 and July 1979 (middle), <br />Large volumes of sedimenl can be deposited by floodwater during the course of an alluvial fan flood event <br />(bottom). SOURCE: FEMA (1989). <br />