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<br />54. Lit~~_Dry Cr_c~I:' Throo r.1:o.j or floods have occc,rred 0:" 1.i t':lo ;:r:
<br />Creok sinoe 1903, when B:1g1ewoed was founded. llo defi'litc :.nform:ltion is
<br />available as to the floods w".ich occurred prior to that date, T:.\O flood of
<br />Juno 1913 resulted frOIil hoavy rains over tho k.sin for sovcral GonsGclicive
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<br />days. This flood did not he.vo quit" no high a poale dischr.r:;o as lat"r
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<br />floods, but it was of longer duratiun. Tho flood of June 12, 1927 w:dch
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<br />resultod frem heavy rainfall ovur the Li'.,tle Dry Creele basin had a po:.1e dis~
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<br />chc.rg:e in exoess of 8,000 second_feat. The flood G l' Septomber 10, 1933,
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<br />which resulted from a heavy rain of cloudburst intonsity over the basin, .,IUd
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<br />'Ill estir~ated peale disohargo of 10,000 second-foet.
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<br />55. 2.1'Gar Creek, Nowspapors l'eport th"t this strecm -,:as in f1eed at
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<br />the. some timo [IS tho South Platto in 1861, Othor flc.Cicls, whioh wore caused
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<br />by cloudburst storms, oocul'rod in the ye[lrs 1857, 1872, 1888, 1896, 1936 and
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<br />1958. .
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<br />Tho maximum dischcu'go of reoord on Clcc.r Or-ook at :~'oldon, Colorado
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<br />w"-s 8,700 second-feot on :.ugnst 1, 1888. ., flood of C,{)[;O soconcJ,.feot WCl"
<br />recorded [It the mouth of Clec,r Creok on Ihy ,;0, 1938.
<br />56. Boulder Creok. There have boen t-.-ro maj or floods 0.'1 Boulder Croek,
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<br />a tributary of St. Vrain Creek, sinoo tl10 bnsin vms settled in UGO. The
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<br />floods oocurred in 1.J1."J..Y 1804- and. JUi10 IG9.z. Both woro unusuo.lly hiGh throu~h..
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<br />out the entiro longth of the vallLY,,,-nd wuro cnus.od by ro.pic' molbnr; of
<br />hoavy winter an,i spring snowfall in tho ,nountams and ::;eneral hoa...-;' r~in-
<br />storms over tho basin, The flood of 1894, which is tho me.ximum floud of
<br />record, ll~.d o.n estimated pod.: discharge 01' 12,000 second-foet. The discharge
<br />of the 1864 Uood is not knovm, but it is bolieved to have oxoeedcd that
<br />of all the floods othor than tho lQ'!H 1'1oocl. Smr.llcr flo,'ds oocurred in 1576,
<br />1914, 1919, 1923. and 1938.
<br />57. Coal Crook. Ther0 e.rc no stro~m gases on Coal Crook for deter-
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<br />ming dinoh.."\rgc measurements. H(J\'rcver, the followtnf, floods have been roported.
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<br />The floods of 1870, 1891, Juno 3, 1921.and ),h"i{ 26~ 1935 wero oaused by rapid
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<br />snowmelt in tho mountains and hoavy general rains, ;, flood oecurrod in C.ur.c
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<br />1896 which was reperted as the highost of reoord in the p€.rt of tilO vo.lloy
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