FLOOD09755

• County: Weld
• Community: Pierce
• Stream Name: South Platte
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Control Investigation Pierce and Vicinity
• Date: 6/1/1939
• Prepared For: Weld County
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

Prelimimu-y E:lCamination Report
FLOOD CONTROL INVESTIGATION
PIERCE, COLORADO AND VICINITY
Weld Coun~Y, Colorado

INDEX

Letter of Transmittal.............'.....e...~............
1. Introduotion............................~.......Q....
2. Questionnaires................$~.............~.......
3- Summary of Flood Damage Revorts......................
4. Looation of Flood Damages.".....................:........
5. Flood Prevention Measures ~s Suggested by
Questionnaire Statemente:.. .0.... Ill....... l" ,~.......
6. Field Investigation of December, 1938.........0,.......
7. Preoipitation Data........, ~......... It,.... ,.. 41.......
8. Spring Creek Drainage Basi218........... It.... ....".... ...
9. Laramie-Poudre Canal.................. 0.... .....fl......
10. Highway and Railroad C,rossings...,...............,.......
11. Estimated Maximum Flood Flows..... I...........'. Ii.."..'.
12. Discussion of Flood Pr,9vention......,........,'..,........
13. Conclusions....~...... '.."......".. "'. ........ "Gt...."..
14. Recommendations...... .'... t..,. ...."..........".....11 t

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2
2,3 and 4
4 and 5
5 and 6
6
7 and. 8
8 and 9
9 and 10
10 and 11
12
12, 13 and 14
14
15

Photographs of Laramie"Poudre Ditch Bas~ of Hi.ghway
No. 8S."............... I." . ...."..._O,. It .;...,... ."........, If 16
Photographs of Laramie..Poudre Ditch Wes~ of Highway
No. 85................41.......q.Q..,.'....~..."......_"fJ 17
Photographs of washes dong State Highway No.. 85
between Nunn and Piero.:~.......... .... Q.... 0'.' It. ....... ft 18
Photographs of highway and railroad bridges ;just
North of Pierce....... .'. .~.,.....".. 00.." "'... .ftO...... 41 19

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1.....Map
2.... .Authe,ri ty for Flood Control. and
Flood, Prevention Projeci;s
3.....Questionnaire
~....Summnry of Flood Damage Rep~rts, Pierce,
Colorado and Vicinity
5.....Summnry of Reporte\l Flood DamAges, Years 1917-1935
Properties lathin Spring Cre.3k Drai:ne.ge.
6.... .S1l11llllary 'of_Reported Flood DEIlllages, Yeare 19;6-1938
Properties Within Spring Cre'lk Drainage.
7.....SlllIllI1Il.ry of: Reported Flood DEIll1B.ges Years 1935-1938
Prope,rtiell Vii thin Spr ing Crellk Drai:ne.ge.
8. (a).Flood Con~rol Investigatioll, Description of
Rain Ge.ges at Nunn.Pierce,Ault and Eaton,Colorado
8. (b).Preoipitation for tear 1931~.
a.(c).Preoipitation for tear 1935.
8.(d).Precipitation for Year 1936.
8. (e).Precipitation for 'tear 1937'.
8. (f). Precipitation for Year 1938.

(b)