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

Front Range Urban Corridor Project), the National Weather Service,

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Colorado Water Conservation Board, Colorado Department of Natural Re-

sources, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the U. S. Army, Corps of En-

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gineers. It should be understood that at the time of this writing,work

is still in progress, hence information presented herein should be con-

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sidered preliminary.

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Photographs used in this guidebook have been obtained from several

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sources. The cover and other photos were provided by Mr. Tim Wiley

(Free Lance Commercial Photographer, Fort Collins, Colorado), the Big

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Thompson storm cloud photo was supplied by Mr. Mark Griswold (Graduate

Student, Colorado State University), and the satelite imagery was ac-

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quired from Mr. J. Purdom (National Environmental Satellite Service,

NOM).

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Finally, this effort is dedicated to the memory of those rescue

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workers who lost their lives attempting to aid others in the Big Thomp-

son Flood.

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Donald O. Doehring
October, 1976

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