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<br />BIJOU CREEK BASIN <br /> <br />Flood History. Floods in the Bijou Creek Basin have <br />occurred as the result of runoff from high intensity rainfall <br />over a relatively small portion of the drainage area. Records do <br />not indicate any major flooding from snowmelt runoff. The two <br />record flood events that have occurred in the Basin are described <br />in the following paragraphs. <br />Flood of May 1935. Runoff from the storm of 30 and 31 <br />May 1935 caused major flooding in the Bijou Creek Basin. An <br />observer on East Bijou Creek at a point 3 mi les west of Deer <br />Trai I reported seeing a wall of water 10 or 15 feet high rushing <br />toward him. The business section of Byers was inundated by <br />flooding on West Bijou Creek, and the Union Pacific railroad <br />bridge and embankment were washed out. The estimated peak <br />discharge at the Wiggins gaging station was 280,000 c.f.s. <br />Flood of June 1965. The unprecedented rainstorms of June <br />1965 caused major flooding in the Bijou Creek basin. Heavy <br />runoff caused extensive damage at the towns of Deer Trail and <br />Byers. In the rural areas, farms and ranches along the <br />bottomland were severely damaged. A boy was drowned as he was <br />checking the livestock in one of the outbuildings at his father's <br />ranch along a Bijou Creek tributary. His father indicated that <br />the flood approached without warning shortly after the heavy <br />rains began. These floodwaters caused record flooding on the <br /> <br />9 <br />