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<br />Roaring Fork River Looking Downstream at Station 285+25
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<br />HISTORY 0, FLOODING
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<br />Information pertaini~g to the flood history of the study area came from two
<br />rnJ i ~ sources; i nte rv iCW5 wit h long time I oea I res i dent~ and ~ U. S. Army
<br />Corps of Engineer, letter ;"pon ent i t I"d "lnve.tl9~t ion of Flood ~robl~m,
<br />on Roaring Fork River, Colorado," i'larch 7, 1958 (Reference5). This report
<br />i, aho included in Reference 11, the TeChnical Addetldum.
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<br />Alistoflongtimc loc;al re5ident' was compiled with the help of Or. WilliJrn
<br />Grant, from the. Town of 6asalt, and i'lr. Michael Blair, an fagle County PI anner,
<br />Several of these people were IntervIewed regarding the history of flooding
<br />inthe.studYdrea. Ofthosepeoplecontacted,one"couldnotrememberany'
<br />thing"pertainingtofiooding, and another thought that "guIle ywa,hersw"re
<br />morcdangerou, than rIver floods" in the Eagle County area. Thesec;"""""nts
<br />infer that this region nJs not been susceptible to s~rious ,,,,,,in stem flood-
<br />illgin the recent past.
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<br />Mr. Ri~hiird Lu~kslng.,r of Basalt, was an Eagle County COI1'{I1I" ioner during
<br />the Julyof 1;l57 f100d and w",s interviewed by the Corp> of Engineer5 for
<br />Inform<lt ion for the above ment ioned lett~r report. Mr. Luck~ Inqpr recal Is
<br />the flood of 1957 as b,,'ng the W<Jrst in hh ,,,,,,"ory. Ii" ~tdt,,~ that hi,
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<br />uncle w~n h~d ~o~~ to fl;h ~t S~~J~t c~rly In Ieee repc~tedry told him thot
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<br />"yfluciifl'ttrustth"RoarlngFork."
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<br />Mr. Lucbln""r ~dlJ th"t "round July ~, 1957, d heavy ".in mclted large
<br />volumes of snow whiCh ~tlll remained due to an unusu~lly cold spring ano
<br />late ,u.nn,y. He remembered that the river ro"" r.lpldly 10 flood height ,n
<br />about IS rnlnule, and stayed up forthreedoys. According to"". Lucksinq.,r
<br />th" Ro"ring Fork River rose high enough to wash against th" bottom of the
<br />Emma Br iJ\je, which "ashed out and had to be repldc"J. P I I i ng~ for the new
<br />bri dge were ~bout 60 feet deep. Ourl ng the flood, the river change<J courSe
<br />,~verd I t I m"s, ~omet imes gol ng unde r the br Idge, ,omet ime. to One ~ I de or
<br />th~ other, The ~r"u, no" occup ied by era i ler park, j" the f looJI'Id in I"
<br />R"."It ",.r" ,,'verdl feetde"p in water.
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