FLOOD08209

• County: Adams
• County: Arapahoe
• County: Douglas, Jefferson
• Community: Denver Metroploitan Area
• Stream Name: South Platte River, Chatfield Dam to Baseline Road
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Major Drainageway Planning
• Date: 8/1/1984
• Prepared For: Denver Metropolitan Area
• Prepared By: Wright Water Engineers, Inc.
• Contract/PO #: &&
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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TABLE VI-3
(Reference 3)

TABLE VI-2
(Reference 3)

FISH SPECIES
AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL SAMPLE
AT EACH
SAMPLING lOCATION'

Samplinlil Location'
Species 8 C D E F G H J K
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY SAMPLING lOCATIONS Black Bullhead <1 2 1 1 1 <1
AND DATA COLLECTED ON NOVEMBER 17, 1981, {lcta/urus melas}
I N THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER Bluegill Sunfish <1 6
(Lepomis macrochirus) 7 <1 <1
Brown Trout <1
Site River (Sa/mo trutta) 1~ <1 17
Name location Mile Fish Benthos Carp <1
(Cyprinus carpio)
A Below Chatfield dam 335 X X Channel Catfish <1
B Near C-470 Bridge 333.6 X {lctalurus punctatus} 3~ 27 2 14 22
Creek Chub 3 3 31
C Near Cooley/Crawley Gravel 331.7 X (Semotilus atrom<1culatus)
D Near Maplewood Avenue 330.9 X Fathead Minnow 1 8 6 <1 9 2 54 47 93 4
E At Littleton gaging statian (06710000) 328.9 X X (Pimephales promelas)
F Near O>dord Avenue Bridge 326,6 X X Green Sunfish <1 2 3 1 <1 4 8
G Near Florida Avenue Bridge (06711590) 322.7 X X (Lepomis cyanellus) 1
H Below Speer Blvd, Bridge (Confluence Park) 317,7 X Johnny Darter
I At Denver gaging station (Etheostoma nigrum) 2 <1 <1 <1 7
Largemouth Ba.. <1
(19th Street Bridge) (06714000) 317 ,2 X X (Micropterus salmaides)
J At 50th Avenue gaging station (06714130) 314.3 X X Longnose Dace 49 24 26 9 6 8 1 1
K Near Public Service Co. Cherokee (Rhinichthys Calaractae)
Power Plant discharge 312.5 X Longnose Sucker 31 49 36 J3 22 75 10 14 4
L Above Clear Creek (1-76 Bridge) 311. 7 X (Catostomus catostomus)
M At Henderson gaging station Pumpkinseed Sunfish <1 13
(l23rd Avenue Bridge) (06720500) 301.7 X (Lepomis gibbosus) 2 <1 <1
Sandshiner 2
(Notropis stramineus) <1 24
White Crappie
(Promo"is annularis) 3 17 31 9 4 14 3 17
White Sucker 11 1
(Catostomus commersoni) 2 1
Yellow Perch 3 2
(Perca "avescensJ
Total' 100 100 100 99 100 100 99 98 100 100
'<1 Indicates species comprised less than 1 percent of sample.
'Sampling locations are described in Table 20. total
'Species comprising <1 percent of sample constitute difference between
and 100 percent.