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above the confluence with West Tenmile Creek. The basin width is 7 miles and the total basin length is about 14 miles. The creek slopes at about 1.4 percent at Frisco, 2 percent in the canyon, and 2.7 percent in the upper basin. The elevations in the basin range from 13,000 feet above Copper Mountain to 9,000 feet at Lake Dillon. The study reaches within this basin are portions of Tenmile Creek adjacent to and within the Town of Frisco. The Meadow Creek Basin drains to the east from the Gore Range into Dillon Reservoir at Frisco, just north of Lower Tenmile Creek. The basin has a total drainage area of 5.8 square miles and a length of 4.5 miles, The width of the basin varies from 1.0 tD 1.5 miles. The channel slope averages 1.7 percent fDr the study reach near Frisco while steeper slopes of 10.7 percent exist above Frisco in the Gore Range. The elevations in the basin range from 12,700 feet to 9,000 feet at Dillon Reservoir. The study reaches within this basin are portions of Meadow Creek adjacent to the Town of FriscD, with some segments located within the Town's corporate limits. Miners Creek Basin is located to the east of Tenmile Range, with the ridge to the east of Peak 4 being the southern boundary of the basin. The basin has a drainage area of 6.8 square miles which drains east into Miners Creek, then north to Dillon Reservoir. Jug Creek and No Name Creek are tributaries of Miners Creek. The study reach within the basin is a segment along Miners Creek. The Breckenridge Floodplain Information Report (Reference 8), completed in 1975, derived frequency-discharge relationships for certain tributaries within the Town of 8reckenridge. Synthetic storms were derived from the statistical analysis of rainfall data as presented in Technical Paper 40 of the U,S, Department of Commerce, Weather Service. The peak flow rate data for French Gulch and the Blue River (downstream of GDOSe Pasture Tarn) are contained in the 1975 report, and provide peak flow rates for the 10-, 100-, and 500-year recurrence intervals, The Hydrology Report for the Summit County Flood Insurance Study completed in 1978 (Reference 6) contained the diSCharge-frequency data that are tabulated in the published Flood Insurance Study. Stream gage data for a particular study reach were statistically analyzed to compute peak flow rates for specific recurrence intervals, This was done for the Snake River using data from Gage No. 475 and for Tenmile Creek using data from Gage No. 501, Adjustments for locations other than at the gage station were made by making a discharge versus drainage area comparison. A regional regression analysis was performed to provide a basis for estimating flows from ungaged drainage basins having similar characteristics of gaged drainage basins. A single variable (drainage area) algorithm was developed from the regression analysis for each selected flood frequency. These algorithms were converted into a graphical depiction (Reference 6) of 34