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of this flood ~t ~rsay and ~t Salz~c w~s the largest ever recorded ~t those loc~tlons except for the flood of May 1973 ~nd the flood of June 1965 respectively. 1935 - RaIns of cloudburst Intensity over the basIns of the plains tributaries to the South Platte River east of Denver occurred on 30-31 May following the wettest May In Colorado In 48 years. It was reported that a "veritable wall of water" appeared on Bljou Creek about 4mlles upstream from Its confluence wIth the South Platte RIver. The flood crest reaChed Fort Morgan on 31 May and was reported to be (0 feet above flood stage having a dISCharge of 84,300 cubic feat per second. Although the flood crest attenuated rapIdly dOllllstreom from Fort Morg~n, the floodwater reached the Union Pacific R.oJ I I road gr~de near Crook, Colorado. 1938 Heavy ralntall during thO period from 30 August to 4 September over much ot the upper South Platte River basin c~used flooding on many of the mountain streams tributary to the South Platte River as wel I as the South Platte River Itself. Relatively minor fiooding was reported on the So~th PI~tte River. 1942 - The tloo4 at Aprll-May on the South Platte River was ca~sed by excessIve r~lnla II and snowmel t. The susta Ined high flows crr~tcd conSiderable domago mainly due to erosIon. Some lev~ failure occurred. Failing temperaTures In laTe AprIl turned The r~lnfall to snow as well as subsIding the melt of the exISTing snow- pack thus preventing more sarlous flooding. 1949 - Heavy rainfall over a melting snowpack caused floodIng on The South PlaTTe River from mld-May to laTe June from LiTtleton, Colorado TO North PlaTte, Nebraska. Conslder~ble damage was incurred by homes, farm buildings. and croes along th~T reach of The rIver. 1965 - Heavy to Torrential rainfall over large portions of the South Platte River I>aslncrO(lted extensive flooding along the $outh PI~He River. Heavy r~lnfall occurroo over !X>rTlons of the , I I I I l northern sections of the South PlaTte River ~sln on The 14Th and 15th of June. As The STorm system moved southWllrd, TorrenTI~1 raln- f~11 centered principally over The Plum Creek watershed on 16 June and on the BiJou Creek watershed on 17 June. Storm rainfall of The perIod extended over some 3,000 squ/lre mIles of The South PI~tTe River basin. Including The PlumCreek,CherryCreek,and Sand and Toll Gate Creek w~Tersheds In the Denver region, and the B1Jou Creek, KloWll Creek, CommanChe Creek, Badger Creek, ~nd ~ver Creek w~ter- Shoos to the east. Flooding occurred on the South Platte River from Plum Creek downstream fu North Piette, Nebraska asa result of this rainfall. 1969 - Heavy rains started on the afternoon of 4 May and contInued WiTh only InTermiTtent breaks until 8 May. The storm covered ~n area along ~nd near the eaSTern slopes of the mountains and extended Into porTions of the high plains. The heavieST amounts were centered 25 Illlles SOUThwest of Denver ~nd extended In a Mnd along The foothills northw~rd to near Estes Park. The weaTher ST~Tion at Morrison reported a tot~1 STorm ralnfa II of 11.27 Inches and a maximum dally amount ot 5.77 Inches. General tloodlng resulted ~long The South Platte River. 1973 - Snowmelt runoff 'r~ the lower ~unta!n a~oa of the South Platte River Msln began aoout The middle Of AprIl. Rainf~II, amountIng to as much as ~ Inches, whiCh was the major causative faCTOr of The flooding In The SoUTh PlaTte River basin, began on 5 May. Sh~rp Increases In flow as a result of The rainfall runoff were recorded aT all gaging STatIons ~Iong the SoUTh PlaTte River from LlTtleTonTotheColorado-NebraskaS"'atellne. The rainfall runoff w~s ~ugmented by mountain runoff WhiCh was also increaSing during this perIod. The resulT was general flooding throughout the South PlaTte River basIn; floo4lng was characterized by high, sharp hydrogr~ph pooks from The ralnfa II runoff followed by a slow recession because of the continuing mountain snowmelt runoff. Bankfull , 10