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<br />places, pits were started but soon abandoned because of the heavy <br />underflow, and the location of the. . . locomotive appeared <br />hopeless when it was estimated the bedrock formation was probably <br />50 feet below the channel of the Kiowa. (It never was <br />recovered.)" <br />Flood of 30-31 May 1935. This flood was caused by <br />several small storm cells centered over the extreme upper reaches <br />of the Kiowa Creek basin. Rainfall amounts up to 24 inches in a <br />12-hour period were reported. At the small town of Kiowa, <br />Colorado, 15 houses were swept away and several stores were <br />wrecked. Estimated peak discharges on Kiowa Creek for this event <br />were 43,500 cubic feet per second at Elbert just below the <br />junction of Kiowa and West Kiowa Creeks, 110,000 cubic feet per <br />second at a site about 11 miles downstream from Kiowa, and 75,300 <br />cubic feet per second near Bennett. Water in Wiggins was several <br />feet deep. <br />Flood of 17-18 June 1965. A large storm system which was <br />centered over the Bijou Creek Basin to the east extended into the <br />upper reaches of the Kiowa Creek Basin. The largest rainfall <br />amount reported was 14 inches, most of which fell in a single 3- <br />hour period. Peak discharge estimates for this event were 41,500 <br />cubic feet per second at a site just upstream from West Kiowa <br />Creek, 19,700 cubic feet per second at Kiowa, and 24,900 cubic <br />feet per second near Bennett. Of 69 floodwater retarding <br />structures built by the SCS in the Kiowa Creek Basin, 30 were <br /> <br />12 <br />