FLOOD02366

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Stream Name: All
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: The Big Thompson Flood of 1976 Field Trip Guidebook
• Date: 1/1/1976
• Prepared For: Annual meeting of Geological Society
• Prepared By: USGS
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

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Table 1. Preliminary Discharge Data for Big Thompson Flood
Peak Peak Unit
Drainage Discharge Area Discharge
Location Area (mi?) (c.Ls. ) (c .s.m.)
1. Dry Gulch near Estes Park 2.00 3,210 1,605
2. Dry Gulch at Estes Park 6.12 4,460 728
3. Big Thompson River below
Estes Park 9 * 4,330 481
4. Unnamed tributary to Big
Thompson below Loveland
Heights 1.37 8,700 6,350
5. Dark Gulch at Glen Comfort 1.00 6,090 6,090
6. Long Gulch near Drake 1. 99 18,400 9,246
7. Big Thompson River above Drake 34 * 31,200 918
8. North Fork Big Thompson River
above Drake 80.2 8,710 109
9. Big Thompson River near mouth
of canyon 150 * 31,200 208

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* Excludes area above Olumpus Dam as no discharge was contributed
during flood.

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