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<br />, <br /> <br />gaging station is 2060 cfs recorded on this date for the 15.1 <br /> <br />; <br /> <br />square mile basin ahove the gage. The discharge at Erie, drainage <br /> <br />area of 79 square miles, would have been larger. <br /> <br />Flood damages on Coal Creek were itemized by the SCS <br />as follows:39 <br /> <br />Land <br /> <br />$28,750 <br /> <br />Irrigation Structures <br /> <br />24,500 <br /> <br />Agriculture <br /> <br />13,535 <br /> <br />Roads and Bridges <br /> <br />700 <br /> <br />other <br /> <br />6,300 <br /> <br />Total <br /> <br />$73,785 <br /> <br />The severity and isolation caused by the May 7, 1969 flood <br /> <br />in the town of Erie is described in the following item in Erie: <br /> <br />Yesterday and Today: <br /> <br />In 1969, Erie had a bad flood which caused schools to <br />close so that students could help to sandbag Coal Creek. <br />Major roads leadi.:lg into Erie were closed because of <br />washed-out bridges. Such roads were the County Line <br />leading in from the north where the Coal Creek bridge <br />was out, Jay Road leading in from the west caused by <br />flood water from Boulder Creek, and Highway 8 leading <br />into town from the east where Coal Creek bridge washed <br />out.40 <br /> <br />The following item from the same source reveals the uncertainty <br /> <br />of past flood control activities along Coal Creek: <br /> <br />The dyke on the east side of town on Kattell Street, <br />which was built for flood protection in ~he 1930's was <br />taken out in 1971-72 and a wider chi'm:1el was made for <br />Coal Creek. It remains to be see:l if this will protect <br />the town as the dyke did when t:le 1969 flood occurred <br />and the dyke had to be sandb~gged shut to ~Iep the water <br />from spreading into the north end of town. <br /> <br />39~. <br /> <br />40Sociology and History classes of Erie High School, Edition <br />2, page 27. <br /> <br />41ibid. <br /> <br />-16- <br />