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<br />! <br />, <br />~ . <br /> <br />! <br />f <br />ie' <br />r <br />I <br />\ <br />f. <br /> <br />, <br />I <br />\ <br />I <br />I <br />~. <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />i <br />, <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />, <br />t <br />~ <br /> <br />L <br />, <br />E <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />and lO-year discharges for each station were then plotted against drain- <br /> <br />age area size on logarithmic paper and a best fit line was drawn thru <br /> <br />the points, The sixteen stations used in the study area are tabulated <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />in Table 1, and the lOO-year versus drainage area and the lO-year versus <br /> <br />'drainage area curves are shown on plates 3 and 4, respectively. <br /> <br />- <br />These' <br /> <br />two curves are for use in mountain areas where flooding occurs principally <br /> <br />from snowmelt runoff and were presented in "Report on ~ydrologic Investi- <br /> <br />gations, Flood Plain Information Study, Rio Fernando de Taos, Taos, and <br /> <br />Taos ,County, New Mexico", dated November 1975, <br /> <br />7, Floods of Designated Frequency, The lOO-year peak flow is required <br /> <br />for a flood insurance study, Flood frequency curves were obtained for <br /> <br />each basin under investigation by first computing the lO- and 100-year <br /> <br />flows as explained in paragraph 6 above, These two values for each basin <br /> <br />were plotted on log-probability paper and a'straight line was drawn thru <br /> <br />the ,points. Table 2 is a tabulation of the basinfinvestigated in this <br /> <br />report and lists the lOO-year flow for each basin. Plates 5 and 6 pre- <br /> <br />sent the discharge frequency relation for each basin. <br /> <br />", <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, <br />