FLOOD09193

• Designation Number: 579
• County: Gunnison
• Community: Marble and Vicinity
• Stream Name: Crystal River
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Floodplain Information Report - Crystal River - Marble and Vicinity
• Date: 8/1/2004
• Prepared For: Marble and CWCB
• Prepared By: Icon Engineering, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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water from the July 31, 1945 storm took out several bridges along the Crystal
River from Marble to Carbondale. Photographs of the flood in 1945 are shown
in Figure I and Figure 2.

Flooding along the Crystal River and in the Town of Marble has been best
documented in 1941 and 1945. However, as indicated by Table 2, historic
flood events along the Crystal River have also occurred in 1917, 1938, 1949,
1952,1953,1957,1965,1971, and 1973.

Figure 1,' 1945 Flood Event - Marble, Colorado (Schutte 1945)

Figure 2,' 1945 Flood Event - Marble, Colorado (Schutte 1945)

ICON Engineering, Inc.
August 2004

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