FLOOD06897

• County: Larimer
• Community: Wellington
• Stream Name: Boxelder Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Boxelder Creek Watershed Hydrologic Analyses
• Date: 12/1/1998
• Prepared For: FEMA
• Prepared By: UDFCD
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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1. Location of paleoflood study for eastern Colorado. Basin boundaries are shown for the larger
basins draining from the Palmer Divide. Maximum 24-hour rainfall isohyets for large
rainstorms in the study area (modified from Hansen and others, 1978) also are shown.
Maximum rainfall amounts are centered on isolated buttes and ridges, which exacerbate rainfall
amounts.