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<br />15 <br /> <br /> <br />: <br /> <br />"The St. Vrain Creek here /~ Longmont/ is way out of its banks <br /> <br />and is said by people who should know to be the highest in 25 years <br />/evidently referring to the flood of 1894/. The Creek is carrying <br />more water and is higher in this region than during the cloudbursts <br />at Lyons 2 years ago. The Creek at this point is three-quarters of <br />a mile wide. Water is up to the Farmers' Mill and the depot. All <br />bridges in the city are out or dangerous." <br />The extent of inundation by St. Vrain Creek on June 3, 1921, at <br />and upstream from present U.S. Highway 287 is shown by the photographs <br />in figure 5. <br />The peak discharge of the flood of June 22, 1941, on St. Vrain <br />Creek at Lyons was the greatest since at least 1887, slightlyex- <br />ceeding the discharges of both the 1919 and 1894 floods, but there <br />is no mention in the Longmont newspapers of any damage in the vicinity <br /> <br />of Longmont. Summer floods caused some damage in the Longmont area <br /> <br />in June 1949 and August 1951. <br />In early May 1957, a series of floods caused severe damage to <br /> <br /> <br />roads and bridges in the study area. Both local newspapers carried <br /> <br /> <br />several reports and photographs of the floods, but the date of the <br /> <br /> <br />highest flow cannot be established. The photographs in figure 6 <br /> <br /> <br />show views of St. Vrain Creek on May 10, 1957, at about bankfull <br /> <br /> <br />stage, but reports in both local newspapers indicate that it may <br /> <br /> <br />have been higher, probably after the photographs were made. From <br /> <br /> <br />the Times-Call for May 11, 1957: <br />