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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Other years of high water were 1957, peak flow 5,220 cfs; 1952, 5,200 cfs; <br />1901, 5,000 cfs; and 1917, 4,940 cfs. <br /> <br />High water on the White River also results from ice jams. One local <br /> <br />woman, who has lived in Meeker since 1945, recalls an ice j am in the winter <br /> <br />of 1951 or 52 which threatened to flood portions of the Rustic Motel, where she <br /> <br />lived at that time, and other residences along Water Street. However, before <br /> <br />the flooding actually occurred, she said the ice jam was dynamited and the <br /> <br />waters subsided. An ice jam during the winter of 1973 necessitated sand <br /> <br />bagging the dike around the sewage treatment plant to keep floodwaters from <br /> <br />overflowing the treatment facility. Subsequent clearing of. an island obstruction <br /> <br />in the main river channel near the sewage plant is expected to reduce the like- <br /> <br />lihood of future flooding at this site. One longtime Meeker resident said that <br /> <br />ice jams Which did form during winter months were routinely dynamited with- <br /> <br />out complication and that there were really no floods on the White River that <br /> <br />he could recall where the water rose above Water Street. <br /> <br />A more serious flooding problem exists on Sulphur Creek, however, <br /> <br />Which has overflowed its banks several times from cloudbursts. Sulphur Creek <br /> <br />flowed diagonally through the town before it was realigned along Second Street <br /> <br />in the early 1900' s between the levees that now confine it, and it is normally <br /> <br />dry with flow occurring only after periods of excess precipitation. Because <br /> <br />the town has no storm drainage facilities, except for the town ditch which <br /> <br />traverses the northern half of Meeker and intercepts some runoff originating <br /> <br />above it, storm water from Sulphur Creek and Sanderson Heights has always <br /> <br />flowed through Meeker following the path of least resistance. Typical results <br /> <br />9 <br />