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County
Rio Grande
Community
Monte Vista
Stream Name
Rio Grande River
Basin
Rio Grande
Title
Monte Vista Community File
Date
1/1/2001
Prepared For
CWCB
Prepared By
CWCB
Floodplain - Doc Type
Community File
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<br />. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />,v <br /> <br />'" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />...12~ <br /> <br />I would like at thi s time to call on Mr. Ralph Elethorpe for a <br />statement. <br /> <br />Mr. Elethorpe. Dol Norte, Colorado: About 25 city blocks out of <br />a total of 122 blocks were flooded to some extent in the high waters <br />of June in 1884; June. 1905; October. 1911; July, 1921 and June, <br />1927. Actual expenditures for emergenoy work by the City are not of <br />record but probably did not exceed $500.00 each for high water <br />periods. Repat~e to streets, alleys, sidewalks, water mains and <br />sewers are estimated at $500.00 far each of the floods in 1911, 1921 <br />and 1927. Rip-rapping and other work to control the river channel. <br />during tre past fifty years, has been estimated at about $10,000.00. <br />Damage to private property is estimated at $2,500.00 for eaoh of <br />tre floods in 1884, 1905. 1911, 1921 and 1927. The value of the <br />private property within the area that has been flooded is estimated <br />at about $150.000.00. <br /> <br />Mr. Corlett: Thank you, Mr.. Elethorpe. Mr. Ralph L. Carr <br />will now talk to you. <br /> <br />Mr. Carr,. Attorney, Antonito, Colorado: The Conejos River is <br />the largest tributary of the Rio Grande and the difficu1tues of the <br />Conejos are in large measure the same as those presented on the Rio <br />Grande, with this one interesting point. The Conejos, after it <br />leaves the mountains proper, has been cutting channels across a Delta <br />which ranges fran 5 to 30 miles in width before it runs a Northeast <br />direction to meet the Rio Grande,about 45 miles from the point where <br />it emerges from the foo.fuills.. The problem of the Conejos each year <br />is the sediment in and around the river structures of the many large <br />ditches which are used for irrigation on the Conejos. There are <br />sanething like 52 large di tohes. Each diversion structure on the <br />river is expected to wash out with high water in May and June of <br />each year. The result is that the irrigation ditches for same <br />dis:lnmoo below the river junction fill up with sand and silt during <br />the early summer months; when the river recedes it is impossible <br />to get water through these ditches without clearing them of the <br />deposits. During this period the crops suffer. The cost in labor <br />alone is sanething I will have to leave to your judgment, but it is <br />considerable and the damage to the crops is very high because it <br />is at that time that the crops need the water and they do not get <br />it when they need it. The loss from the overflow of the ditches <br />in many of the years during the time this sediment is deposited.' <br />is enonnous. In the 1911 flood. in ()e.tober. damage which has been <br />estimated at from a quarter to half a million dollars was suffered <br />in the country from the Dalton bridge near the Magotes to the <br />junction of the Conejos wi th the Rio Grande, and I would like to <br />offer a picture taken in October, in 1911, in the town of Manassa <br />five miles from the river. of the main street of that town and on <br />
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