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<br />Outflanked Agricultural Levee - Arkansas River, Prowers County <br /> <br />As time went on, the weather was adding new snow in the mountains. It was not until <br />mid-June, two weeks after Memorial Day, that temperatures got high enough for heavy snowmelt <br />runoff. Over the Father's Day weekend (June 16-18) most mountain streams peaked after 3 days <br />of hot weather followed by rainstorms on Saturday. The Gunnison River at Gunnison, the North <br />Fork of the Gunnison at Sommerset and Clear Creek at Lawson experienced flows between the <br />10-year and the 50-year frequency. The Blue River at Breckenridge and Tenmile Creek at Frisco <br />experienced over 50-year flows. The Crystal River at Avalanche Creek (below Redstone) <br />experienced just less than a 100-year flow. The Arkansas River at Wellsville (below Salida) had <br />the flood of record, well above the computed 100-year level. Most other streams experienced 10- <br />year flows. About 3 to 4 weeks later, during the week of July 10-14, a heat wave produced more <br />high flows. In Clear Creek County flows were almost as high as they had been 4 weeks earlier. <br />In the upper Roaring Fork River basin (Aspen and Basalt) flows were higher than in June, <br />reaching near 50-year levels in Aspen and near 100-year levels in Basalt. The Colorado River <br />from Glenwood Springs to the Colorado-Utah border was in flood stage as well <br /> <br />State Recreation Area Closed Due to Flooding - Colorado River, Mesa County <br />