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, , In lU ls.ue of 17 June 1923, the Port Collin. Expr<<"" puhlLshed., dispatch from Gr"eley whIch read: valley and ter,.inateTh.. flood reached the canyon station at 8:15 p.~., on 10 ~ay and destroyed the gage recordef, but from high water marks the peak discharge was estim"ted at 10,200 ".f.s. The fort Collins Ex- o ",. ,orm "hichextendedinto press-Courier, 1 June 193~, states ""at ue" , the upper basin of the Cache 1" Poudre River, was not sufftclent to Increase materially the flow upstream from the mouth of the North Fork. 'Ihatflow,,"aaabout2,OOOc.f.s., Indlcatingtnatthefloodpeakonthe North Fork was about 8,QOO c.f.s. No definite infor~tion regarding the duration of the flood is available, but the flood reAcbedFon Collins, 12 miles downstres~, about 10 p.~. and la$ted only 2 hours. Thechiet daw.ageot the flood was wrought On bridges, highway., and "Highwater''''the(Cnche La) P<>udre second only to the flood of 190.(" ton1llhtshutoffaU travel on!Jighwnys Ilorth a[\dwest of the city dnd had drlven a score of fnrnilies from their home. on the lowlands. The south channel of the (Cache la) Poudr" h "'Hhln a few tn<:hes of theUnlonPaclfic track bot"'eenhero and Cheyenne. Three feet of water has drlven tourists from their camp ground in the bottoms. The Boyd farm northwe.t of hera was entirely under water for the first time since 1884." Flood of May-June 1930. Heavy rains in the North Fork Cache la Poudre River B~sin DO 31 ~ay 1930 cause~ the highes~ flood On the North Forksinea 1904 and a flood on the Cache lsPoudreRiverat the canyon gaging s~aeion that rankad among the most severe floods in ehat ar~a. lrrigation canal head gates upstr~am frDm Fort Collins. althoughbankfuU, did not overflow ita ch..nnd 1nPort ,he river, Colllns. The storm that Cdused the flood ap~eared to oritlnate 1n the foothills sOuth"'est of Livermore, where the altitude ranges fto," 7000 to 7500 fe"~ II. s, 1. It tr,we l"-d north'''est, rel,,-_,s tng heavy pr<>clpi- tat ion dbout 7 "'-iles northwest of Uverrnore, dnd ended in a hailstorm tha~ covered th., gro<lnJ "'ith h~i1 ~" " dc;>t~ cf 'cverdl illdles. At Li vertoOre the rain started at 3 p.... and c"n~inued "nUl 6 p. Ilh, "'i th the heavies ~ fall about 5 p. ",. No record of the alllOunt of precipi- t~tion is "vaih!,~c. The N<lrth F<lrk C>lche la Poudre River started t<l rise about 5 p.",. ~n~ reached its pe.:lk ,.n h"ur later On the Livermore g3ge. The river ~e",,\ined high until S p. m" then dropped ral'idly. The peak dt.'charge was 6,800 c.t.s., as deterl>1nad by a R1ol'e-area me<lsurQ- meno. hS1!l.'lllareaatlivermore...a.i:1.undated. 1951, a heavy fro~ Bouldet to Fort Collins. Approximately 12 occurred neat Bellvue. A severe flood re.ulted ra1nstormoccurredoverthefrontr3ngeand. During the afternoon and night of 3 August foothill. Flood of AUgust 1951. inchea of rainfall on the Cache la Poudre ,. ,".. -. "ood ~eak on the Cache la River ~nd on its tr uutary ry ~raek. '" ~ . Poudre River at a polnt 4 ~1~es upstream from the ~outh of Dry Creek occurred at 9:50 p.~, on ) August at an estlmated 4,~10 c.f.s. di.- charge. A peak of 12,000 <:.f.$, was estlmated. at Laporte. about 2 ~lle. downstream from the cQnfluencewlthDry Creek. A crest of 3,700c.f.s. was re"ched at 3 p.m. "n5Augu.tiltGreeiey. Betweon Liver=re a~d the canyon g,'ging .taU<>n on the Poud re River a bou~ 14 .n.!le" do'.nst r..""" the flood tr~v~,"~J Cach~ 1.1 On the ~in stem, large areas of cropland were inundated ~3 well , , b ildinas Dama.o;e r~.ulted to num~rous asnumerou"houses..n ...rm u ",' . > ,. '~n'" ," "0" Collins. runoff from a irrigatlon da"s, "ea~wor..s, an ca,,~,.~. r smatl draw flooded a ~ortlon of CoLorado State College and ~ 10-!,lock tired of Fort ColLin.. anarro.. " "