FLOOD09770

• Designation Number: 493
• County: Yuma
• Community: Yuma
• Stream Name: Republican
• Basin: Republican
• Title: Floodplain Information Report - Phase A Report - Yuma
• Date: 4/1/1976
• Designation Date: 3/1/1999
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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Major Recorded 24 Hour Rainfall Precipitation

October 19, 1908
June 18, 1946
June 8, 1974
September 7, 1951
September 19, 1946
Jun'e 8, 1966
June 5, 1965
June 5, 1965

As recorded by N.W.s., except as noted.

* Recorded near Yuma, 5 miles west by H. Goeglein
** Recorded at Yuma by H. Goeglein

4.10 inches
3.76 *
3.50 **
3.02
2.87
2.82
2.65 *
2.60

In addition to these data, the U.S.D.A., Soil Conservation Service

(S.C.S.) has performed statistical analysis on data from this station

and all other stations in the region to define the probability of

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rainfall depths occurring for prescribed frequencies and durations.
These statistical analyses were prepared by the S.C.S. in cooperation
with the National Weather Service and are presented in "Procedures
for Determining Peak Flows in Colorado".
B, Discharge Records
There are no known discharge gages on the ephemeral drainageway
that passes north of Yuma or any nearby swales. Personnel of the Yuma
County road maintenance department were contacted by Hydro-Triad, Ltd.
personnel for records of the road washouts or temporary blockages by
flood flows, and particularly any damages occurring on the north-south
county road just west of town that crosses the ephemeral drainageway
of interest. Mervin Marr, who has been in the area since 1912 and employed

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