FLOOD02668

• County: Denver
• Community: Denver
• Stream Name: South Platte River
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Floodplain Information Metro Denver Region Volume I Report and Technical Appendix Waterton to Brighton
• Date: 10/1/1963
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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TRENDS - URBAN GROWTH AND STORM RUNOFF
METROPOLITAN DENVER

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Trends in population and urban land requirements in the Denver metropolitan area.
and the corresponding volume of storm runoff from urbanized lands to be expected
from a storm with rainfall of one inch in one hour over the urban area. This runoff
added to the swollen streams from runoff of the watershed above the metropolitan
area may in future years aggravate or create flood problems in the Denver region.

SOUTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN, COLORADO
DENVER METROPOLITAN REGION
flOOD PLAIN INFORMATION STUDY

SOUTH PLATTE RIVER

GROWTH TRENDS

U. S. ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT, OMAHA
CORPS OF ENGINEERS OMAHA, NEBRASKA
OCTOBER 1963

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