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<br />Table 3 <br />Annual Peak Discharges for the Cache la Poudre River <br />downstream from Elkhorn Crook!/ <br /> <br />FLOOD DESCRIPTIONS <br /> <br />Date Dlscharqe <br /> <C.f.s.l <br />, June 1946 3,020 <br />9 Jun6 "" 3,830 <br />3 June 1946 2,950 <br />" June 1949 3,610 <br />" J'M 1950 3,570 <br />20 June 1951 3,860 <br />" June 1952 4,340 <br />" June 1953 3,340 <br />" ,." 1954 1,630 <br />23 ,." 1955 1,890 <br />3 June 1956 3,440 <br />30 June 1957 4,900 <br />29 ,." 1956 3,600 <br />21 June 1959 2,840 <br /> <br />The followlng accounts are representatlveof typ lcll I <br />floods on the ClIche la Poudre River for whIch Infonmatlon is <br />avaIlable. Most of these accounts do not describe speelflcally <br />accounTS of flooding within the study raad of this report. They <br />do, however, indicate thllt flood conditions existed along the <br />strelll1'1 Implying that floodwllters may have been passing thMQugh the <br />study reach. <br /> <br />June 1844-Frenchtrapper, Antoine Janis, whollvadon <br />the Cache la Poudre River naar present day Laporte stated that <br />"On the fIrst of June, 1844, I stuck my stake on a clalm ln the <br />valley. At th<lt time the streams were all very hlgh and the valley <br />blackwlthbuff/llo." <br /> <br />1/ Fr~ U.S.G.S. ,,/lging StilT Ion on the Cache la Poudre River on <br />left bank 500 feet southwest from Color/ldo Highway 14, .6 miles <br />downstreamfrolTlElkhornCreek,lIndllooutlOmllesupstraamfrom <br />PoudrePark. <br /> <br />June 1864 - Mountain snowmelt coupled with heavy rlllnfall <br />in the upper Cache la Poudre River hIlsln caused flooding II10ng the <br />ClIcn6 la Poudra Rivflr In the mountaIns and on the pl/lins. At that <br />timethlsfloodw...stheworstknOWflbywnltemen. <br /> <br />Mav 1876 - Flooding occurred in the vIcinity of Fort <br />Collins IInd Greeley due to the CliChe III PoudreRlver. <br /> <br />June 1884 - The melting of IIn unu'iulIl Iy heavy snowpack <br />in the spring ot 1884 CIIUSed some flooding II10ng the Cache la <br />Poud..eRiv"... <br /> <br />June 1891 - Excessive ..unoff from mountain snowmelt <br />cllused the failure of Chamb"rs lake ~m In the helld~llters of the <br />Cliche laPoudreRlver. According to the II June 1891 Issue of the <br />Fort Collins Courier. tho floodwllter ".... carrledevervthlnq In <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />, <br />