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<br />STREAM GAGE AT 27 TH LANE
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<br />CO!lPSOFENGINEERS,U.S,AIlIolY
<br />A~B:.JQUERClUE C:STRICT. NEW NEXICO
<br />HIGHEST TEN RECORDED
<br />FLOWS
<br />ST. CHARLES RIVER
<br />VICINITY OF PUE8l0,COlORAOO
<br />"ARCH 1970
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<br />PLATE 2
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<br />early ne~$p~per accounts, and authoritative information on the
<br />St. Charles RIver study reach is generally lacking.
<br />The following briaF paragraph, published in the
<br />Pueblo Deily Chieftain of July 21, 1886, bect illustrates the
<br />undeveloped nature of the area which has endured until recent
<br />years' "The St. Charles Wee on a 'high' yesterday, running bMk.
<br />full all afternoon. Whether any damage ~as done out there is
<br />not kno~n. The Arkansas ~as also partly full, and even ths Foun_
<br />tdn gave evidence of a slight intention to rise."
<br />Long-term reeidents in the area almost invariably USa
<br />the flood of June 4, 1921, as e yardstick against ~hich the known
<br />floods of later years ere measured. Research confirms that the
<br />1921 flood on the St. Charles River ~as of major magnitude, being
<br />accompanied by simult~neous fluoding on the Arkansas River end
<br />Fountsin Creek which attained disastrous proportions at Pueblo.
<br />In the follo~ing excerpts from ne~spapar accounts, other floods of
<br />apparent significance ere described as they occurred in 1946, 1950,
<br />and 1955.
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<br />Auoust14.1946
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<br />"St. Charles H~s Record Flow," s~id the caption of the
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<br />Pueblo Star Journ"l's le"ding article en August i'. 1948. "The
<br />'<. Cherles River"ss reported by old-timers to "' at it. highest
<br />level since ,", flood cf 1921 durinq the height of the storm. It
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<br />left its banks in severel pleees, carrying eway t~o large hay
<br />stacks and eClmG baled hay en the nnches 1n the bott"",land. The
<br />w~ter waS within three fsat of the bridge On High~ay 85. Hail
<br />stood ~bout 16 inches deep 810n9 the highw8Y", Although no
<br />bridge,., ~ora ~a~h~d away, therA was extaneiv~ damage to th~ epw
<br />proachee. Ccunty highway crews ~ere out early ~orking on bridges
<br />aCrOsS the St. Charles River. Peter Hughes, county highway
<br />commiec1on~r, h~d juct returned to Pueblo Darly thic afternoon
<br />after being called cut ~t 6:30 ~.m. tc direct opcr~tion~ in thet
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