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<br />Q) <br />OJ <br />"- <br />ell <br />.c <br />() <br />(/) <br />Cl <br /> <br />1000 <br /> <br /> <br />-300,000 cIs <br />.......El.._....................~.. <br /> <br />1000000 <br /> <br />100000 <br /> <br />PMFs <br />Eastern Colorado <br /> <br />cr~ <br /> <br />'" <br />-- <br />C') <br />- <br />... <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />10000 <br /> <br />~ <br />ell <br />Q) <br />a. <br /> <br />...... <br />......... 0 <br />.~. ... <br />... .. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />f!':' <br />. g <br />~ <br />" <br />.. <br />" <br />a: <br /> <br />. <br />. <br />. Op, CC basin gages <br /> <br />... Opaleo CC basin <br />. Op, Low TR <br />. BE basin <br /> <br />100 <br /> <br />Box Elder Cr basin <br /> <br />~ <br />() <br /> <br />I!. OP, Kiowa (high TR) <br /> <br />o Op, other PDs (high TR) <br /> <br />Dolo In.. .cc....I..O.1114..... <br /> <br />>- <br />~ <br />~ <br />~t <br /> <br />10 <br />. 1 <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />1 0 <br /> <br />100 <br /> <br />1000 <br /> <br />10000 <br /> <br />100000 <br /> <br />Drainage Area, mi2 <br /> <br />4, Relation between peak discharge and drainage area for streams in eastern Colorado, Data are <br />stratified based on high or low topographic relief in a basin, High-topographic relief basins <br />(more than about 300 feet of relief in about three miles or less) include Cherry Creek (CC), <br />Box Elder Creek (BE), Kiowa Creek, and other Palmer Divide (PO) streams such as East Plum <br />and Bijou Creeks, Envelope curves for maximum floods and PMF values (Bullard, 1986; U,S, <br />Army Corps of Engineers, written commun" 1997) for eastern Colorado also are shown, <br />Floods in low-topographic relief basins (Low TR) throughout eastern Colorado plot on or below <br />the Cherry Creek basin envelope curve, <br /> <br /> 9000 West East <br /> Box Elder Cr ~ <br />- ,~ (,J <br />Q) foothills <br />Q) ::I <br /> ~ 0 <br />... ~ <br /> iii (.) <br /> 8000 Ll i!: ::I <br />~ <br />C ,g. <br />0 '" <br />- ~ ~ <br />ell (,J(,J ~ <br /> (.) <br />> 7000 ~ >- >-" <br />Q) (,J ~ ~ 3: " <br />~ <br /> .. ~ 0 3: <br />W E .t:: "- 0 <br /> ::I (.) c3~ ;< <br /> c: wi!: <br /> ;:: DolO I.... ...0..'.'11...._ <br /> W <br /> 6000 30 40 50 60 <br /> 0 1 0 20 <br /> Distance, miles <br /> <br /> <br />5, West to east profile along the crest of the Palmer ,Divide (location is sho",":n on fig, 1). <br />Locations of selected streams draining the Palmer DIVide also are shown on figure 1, <br />