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<br />the engine, which search was completely buried. A few days later '" search was begun <br />for the missing engine, Long metallic rods were driven in the sands. In some places, pits <br />were started but soon abandoned because of the heavy underflow, and the location of the <br />, , . locomotive appeared hopeless when it was estimated the bedrock formation was <br />probably 50 feet below the channel of the Kiowa, (It never was recovered.)" <br /> <br />Flood of 30-31 Mav 1935, This flOod was caused by several small storm cells centered <br />over the extreme upper reaches of the Kiowa Creek basin, Rainfall amounts up to 24 <br />inches in a 12-hour period were reported, At the small town of Kiowa, Colorado, 15 <br />houses were swept away and several stores were wrecked. Estimated peak discharges <br />on Kiowa Creek for this event were <<3,500 cubic feet per second at Elbert just below the <br />junction of Kiowa and West Kiowa Creeks, 110,000 cubic feet per second at a site about <br />11 miles downstream from Kiowa, and 75,300 cubic feet per second near Bennett, Water <br />in Wiggins was several feet deep, <br /> <br />Flood of 17-18 June 1965. A large storm system which was centered over the Bijou <br />Creek Basin to the east extended into the upper reaches of the Kiowa Creek Basin, The <br />largest rainfall amount reported was 14 inches, most of which fell in a Single 3-hour period, <br />Peak discharge estimates for this event were 41 ,500 cubic feet per second at a site just <br />upstream from West Kiowa Creek, 19,700 cubic feet per second at Kiowa, and 24,900 <br />cubic feet per second near Bennett, Of 69 floodwater retarding structures built by the SCS <br />in the Kiowa Creek Basin, 30 were filled to capacity and in some cases emergency <br />spillway flow depths were as high as 35 feet. <br /> <br />4.1.15 BIJOU CREEK BASIN <br /> <br />Flood Historv. Floods in the Bijou Creek Basin have occurred as the result of runoff <br />from high intensity rainfall over a relatively small portion of the drainage area, Records do <br />not indicate any major flooding frorn snowmeil runoff, The two record flood events that <br />have occurred in the Basin are described in the following paragraphs, <br /> <br />Flood of Mav 1935, Runoff from the storm of 30 and 31 May 1935 caused major <br />flooding in the Bijou Creek Basin. An observer on East Bijou Creek at a point 3 miles west <br />of Deer Trail reported seeing a wall of water 10 or 15 feet high rushing toward him, The <br />business section of Byers was inun<lated by flooding on West Bijou Creek, and the Union <br />Pacnic railroad bridge and embankment were washed out, The estimated peal" discharge <br />at the Wiggins gaging station was ~BO,OOO c,f.s, <br /> <br />Flood of June 1965, The unprecedented rainstorms of June 1965 caused major <br />flooding in the Bijou Creek basin, Heavy runoff caused extensive darnage at the towns of <br />Deer Trail and Byers, In the rural areas, farms and ranches along the bottomland were <br />severely damaged, A boy was drowned as he was checking the livestock in one of the <br />outbuildings at his father's ranch along a Bijou Creek tributary, His father indicated that <br />the flood approached without warning shortly after the heavy rains began, These <br /> <br />Colorado Flood <br />Hydrology Manual <br /> <br />4.22 <br /> <br />fPIF( <br />