FLOOD04656

• County: Statewide
• Community: United States
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Summary of Floods in the United States During 1965
• Date: 1/1/1970
• Prepared For: US Department of the Interior
• Prepared By: Federal, State, and Local Agencies
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

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FLOODS OF 1965 IN THE UNITED STATES

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FIGURE 17.-Discharge of the Pecos River during the floods of May 30-31 in the
Carlsbad. N. Mex., area.

Delaware River was moderate to severe. The Soil Conservation Service
reported more than $50,000 damage on four of their watershed projects
in this area. Co=unication facilities and power were disrupted in
a few areas, Highway traffic was interrupted. Autos were washed off
roads at several crossings-a woman was drowned in such an accident
at the u.s, Highway 62 and 180 crossing of Cass Draw,

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FLOODS OF MAY AND JUNE IN WYOMING

By STANLEY A. DRUSE .and KENNETH B. RENNICK

Numerous floods occurred throughout Wyoming in May and June.
A combination of snowmelt and rainfall runoff in May caused major
floods on streams that flow from the northern one-half of the Laramie
Mountains in east-central Wyoming, and in June on streams that flow
northeasterly from the Uinta~ Mountains and from the Medicine Bow
Mountains in southern Wyoming. Also, local heavy thunderstorms