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<br />. Table 4
<br /> Peak Discharges for Historicfr Floods
<br /> Cache La Poudre River-
<br /> Peak Discharge at Peak Discharge at
<br /> USGS Gaging Station USGS Gaging Station
<br /> Upstream from Downstream from
<br /> Date Fort Collins Date Greeley
<br /> c.f. s. c.f. s.
<br /> 22 Jun 1883 7,900
<br /> 20 May 1884 6,8502/
<br /> 9 Jun 1891 21,000=-
<br /> 29 May 1900 5,000
<br /> 21 May 1901 12,000
<br /> 9 Jun 1903 4,100 11 Jun 1903 2,820
<br /> 20 May 1904 3/
<br /> 19 Jun 1909 5,900 !:!
<br /> 2 Jun 1914 5,380
<br /> 23 Jun 1917 7,000 24, 26 Jun 1917 4,220
<br /> 20 Jun 1918 5,200 !!.,/
<br /> 8 Jun 1921 5,230 2/
<br /> 15 Jun 1923 8,550 17 Jun 1923
<br /> 14 Jun 1924 7,440 14 Jun 1924 2,780
<br /> 31 May 1930 10,200 1 Jun 1930 1,270
<br /> 22 Jun 1938 6,180 4 Sep 1938 1,230
<br /> 2 Jun 1943 3,380 7 May 1943 2,190
<br /> 22 Jun 1947 4,660 23 Jun 1947 4,050
<br /> 5 Jun 1949 6,090 15 Jun 1949 2,780
<br /> 3 Aug 1951 4,630 5 Aug 1951 3,760
<br /> 29 May 1958 3,770 30 May 1958 2,230
<br /> 10 Jun 1961 2,960 11 Jun 1961 2,870
<br /> 11 Jun 1965 4,810 19 Jun 1965 3,480
<br /> 23 Jun 1967 2,210 24 Jun 1967 2,050
<br /> 14 Jun 1973 3,780 16 Jun 1973 2,360
<br /> 31 Jun 1976 7,340 2 Aug 1976 1,600
<br /> 16 Jun 1978 3,740 12 Jun 1978 2,130
<br /> 1/ From USGS stream gaging records in excess of 5,000 c.f.s. at the
<br /> gage upstream from Fort Collins or 2,000 c. f. s. at the gage down-
<br /> stream from Greeley.
<br /> 2/ Caused by failure of Chambers Lake Dam.
<br /> 3/ Greater than 1891 flood.
<br /> !!.,/ Gaging record is not continuous.
<br /> 5/ Discharge unavailable.
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