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<br />basin is about 45 feet per mile. <br />The Westerly side o:r the watershed consiste: of steep barren <br />bluffs. Along 'bhe E'asterly portion (inollJ,ding the ten square miles <br />draining into the town of NUlm) there is Il low i'ls"1; ridge marking the <br />di vide Mtween Spring Creek E<nd Lone Tree Creek. <br />A oonsiderable porUon of the wa1;er shed is of a topography <br />adapted to oultivation. Duri,ng pllS'!; year$ some of 'bhe nai;Ural sod <br />has been removed and the land,s ha'ITe been plowed to the extent of ap" <br />proximately 50% of the area above the Laramie-Poudl"e Canal up '!;o the <br />oounty Una bemen Larimer Countt and Weld County. Above that poin'!; <br />there has been little land 6'ult1,rated. Bellow the !.!Lram1e"'Poudre <br />Canal down to the 1'0VItl of P:te,roej appr6xirnercely 8C1,1o of the land has <br />been plowed4 From the testimony Of looal residents s,nd from obser- <br />va'bions in the field, it appellrs that 'bhe principal flood produoing <br />area is looated above the Larlllllie..Poudre Canal, haviIlg a 'bo'bal area <br />of 60-70 square miles in Weld Com:rl;y. <br /> <br />9. Lll.RAMIE-POUDRE CANAL <br />From the time of its cons'bruotion (about 1910) the Laramie- <br />Poudre Canal appears to have funotioned as an in'bercepting drain and <br />'bo have oarried 'bhe flood waters away from the drainage basin of <br />Spring Creek in'bo 'bhe territory East of the Town of N'IlIlll. The Laramie- <br />Poudre Canal was construoted or intended to be comple'bed to a length <br />of about 17 miles East of the Town of Nunn" to empty into the MoGrew <br />Reservoir. However, the cons'bruotion, if :i'b was ever oompleted, was <br />not of sufficient capaoity to :handle all of'the flood flows. There <br />has not been an available supply of water to allow 'l:hEI Lars.nrl.e-Poudre <br /> <br />..9- <br />