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<br />Pierce. These storm systems develop during the afternoon to <br />early evening during May - September. <br /> <br />Documentation of historic floods and damage estimates for <br />Spring Creek date back to 1917. Based on interviews with <br />citizens of the Town, it has been dete,"mined that Pie'"ce has <br />experienced many flood events. Floods have occurred in <br />1917, 19:3:3, 19:35, 1951, 1954, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1975, 1977, <br />1'787, 1988. In 1935, 19"':.5, 1972, 1987, and 198::: the <br />floodwaters overtopped Rowe Avenue and flowed down U.S. <br />Highway 85, and inundated areas to the Wests and East of the <br />highway. At times floodwaters overtop the Union Pacific <br />Ra i I t"oad tt"acks, and eventua II y move southeaste,' I y e,ver <br />farmlands back to Spring Crek. Past floods have caused <br />erosion of the town streets, flooding of structures and <br />basements, damage to the Pierce water system and grain <br />elevator and blocked off the Pierce Laterial Canal and <br />irrigation ditches with sediment. In the more recent floods <br />of August 11, 1987 and June 25, 1988, much of the Town of <br />Pierce was inundated by floodwater. These floods were the <br />t-esu I t of intense thundet-stonns in the uppet- bas in. <br /> <br />Fot~ty-fOUt~ t~es i dences arid bus i nesses and th i rty-seven mob i Ie <br />homes we,-e inundated dU'-ing the August 11, 19::;::7 flood. This <br />flood occur-red as a r-esult (If a five-inch rainfall west of <br />Nunn. Thirty-six resid~nces, one school, and one business <br />were inundated during the June 25, 1988 flood. This flood <br />occurred as the result of a three to four inch rainfal I from <br />a thunderstorm west of Nunn. These floods generally occur <br />in the early evening with approximately one hour of warning <br />time for the Town from upstream reporters. Accounts of <br />pat-t i cui at- I a'-ge events a'-e as fo II ows: <br /> <br />AULT PROGRESS - 19:35 <br /> <br />...ALL TRAFFIC STOPPED AT AULT <br /> <br />At about 3:30 pm on the afternoon of <br />Decoration Day a cloud burst occurred some <br />eight or ten mil es not-thwest of Au I tin the <br />dt"y land. A wall of wate,- ,-ushed down <br />toward the southeast, doing great damage to <br />Ct~Ops, I ivestock and bui Idinss that wet-e in <br />its path. <br /> <br />The towns of Nunn and Pierce, which are <br />just a few rni les to the north of Ault, <br />we,-e a II stand i r,g in water t-ang i ng f,-c,m a <br />few inches to a foot in depth. Many <br />farn i lies wet-e forced to I eave the i ,- he'rnes <br />for higher ground. <br />