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<br />An aerial view of the tity during the 1935 flood is shown in <br />Fiqure 1. <br />Another account of the 1935 flood is given in The Brush News <br />Tribune article entitled, "FLOOD!", reprinted in this report as <br />Fiqure 2. <br />In 1965, when flood waters aqain came dewn Beaver Creek <br />threateninq the City of Brush, the community was more prepared. <br />ThEl City constructed a five-foot hig'h dike around the southeast <br />portion of town to protect that area, against the onrushinq flood <br />wai:ers. The dike held as the flood waters came wi thin inches of <br />overtopping the dike and again threa.teninq the downtown area of <br />Brush. Reqardless, the business district had taken action t:o <br />minimize flood damaqes. The merchants had net only sand bagqed <br />thElir places of business, but also '1,ad removed s,tock merchandise <br />from their basements to higher and safer elevations. <br />Flood waters took the Highway 6-34 bridge out of service in <br />1965. Other bridges in the area were also washed out and closed <br />for a period of two to three days until repairs could be completed. <br />'rhe U. S. Geological Survey est,imai:ed the peak discharge of <br />the 1965 flood at State Hiqhway 71 crossinq south of Brush to be <br />24,300 cfs. This flood was comparable i:o approximately a 25-year <br />flood event. Fiqure 3 shows an aerial view of the approximate <br />flood limits of the 1965 flood in the area southeast of Brush. <br /> <br />HYDROLOGIC AND HYDRAULIC DETERlYiINA'rrONS <br /> <br />Flood Characteristics <br /> <br />Flood events on Beaver Creek are the result of intense thunder- <br />storms occurring in the basin. Beinq subject. to heavy rain events <br />of cloudburst intensity, flooding in the upper part of the basin <br />will characteristically have hiqh peak discharqes of short duration <br />lasting only a few hours. As the flood event, passes into the lower <br />reaches of the creek near Brush, channel storage reduces the flood <br /> <br />-9- <br />