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<br />record discharges. During the 191'3 flood, the river registered <br />peak discharges at the Kersey and Weldona gages of 34,500 cubi<: <br />feet per second and 26,600 cubic feet per second, respectively. <br />The previous record peak at the KE,rsey gage '\/as 31,000 cubic <br />feet per second, reached in June 1921, and at the Weldona gage, <br />it '\/as 18 ,800 cubit~ feet per sec ond, set in June 1965. <br /> <br />b. The flood, damage estimates include direct costs and <br />damages as well as estimates of irrlirect economic losses <br />resulting from the effects of flooding. Direct costs also <br />include the cost of flood fighting and the cost of ];Ost-flood, <br />recovery and rehabilitation work. Flood damage estimates lIere <br />obtained from a number of sources such as other Federal agencies, <br />State agencies, and from affected cities and towns. Flood <br />damage estimates were also obtained by field surveys, by analys is <br />of aerial photographs, and by use of discharge-damage relation- <br />ship data. <br /> <br />30. EVALUATION 011 URBAN DAMAGES <br /> <br />a. General. Estimates of urbe,n flood damages were compiled <br />from post-flood field surveys. These surveys included interviews <br />with affected cOlll11lunities and j,nd:ividue.l property owners. Informa- <br />tion '\/as also obtained from the F,Olderal Disaster Assistance <br />Administration (FilM), formerly' the Office of Emergency Prepared- <br />ness, as to estimates of damage to public facilities. Initial <br />estimates furnish'ld by the FDAA w,~rE' later revised downward as <br />more accurate information became available. <br /> <br />b. The urban damage categor:r includes the estimates of <br />losses sustained by residential and commercial and industrial <br />sectors and inclutl,es estimates of the value of lost or damaged <br />contents and stock inventories, Also included in this category <br />are estimates of the losses sustained by utilities, such aEl <br />telephone and elet~trical services, Emd by publi.cly owned <br />facilities. <br /> <br />c. Urban-associated economic :~~. Flood related <br />expenditures or losses not otherwise Elhown as direct flood <br />losses were classi.fied as urban....associated economic losses, <br />The loss of normal business inccnne, expenditures for ];Ost- <br />flood recovery operations, and funds used by the Red Cross <br />and other relief organizations are included in this category. <br />Urban damages are summarized in table 25. <br /> <br />7," <br />) <br />