Laserfiche WebLink
<br />1.0 EUBEQgf <br /> <br />002711 <br /> <br />The purpose of this detailed technical report is to answer certain <br />hydrological questions raised by an interagency task force created by the <br />Governor to investigate potential earthflow hazards at Dowds Junction, <br />Colorado. It is a scientific reconnaissance level assessment of the <br />hydrologic consequences IF a dam on the Eagle River is formed by an <br />earth flow dam at the Whiskey Creek or Meadow Mountain slide. <br /> <br />This is a big "if" and in no way is this report intended to imply <br />that such an event will happen or is imminent. It is an attempt to <br />quantify the worst case scenario, and several coincidental conditions <br />would have to be met before the events described in this report could <br />occur. These conditions are: <br /> <br />*. The rate of movement of the slide would have to be <br />greater than the ability of the river to wash it away. <br /> <br />*. A sufficient volume of material would have to be available <br />in the slide mass to create a dam high enough to capture <br />the runoff. <br /> <br />.. The slide would have to occur about the beginning of May <br />in order to capture the full amount of the spring snowmelt <br />runoff volume. <br /> <br />** The dam formed by the slide would have to be unstable. <br /> <br />The answers to whether these conditions are possible or not are <br />for geologists and dam safety engineers to investigate. <br /> <br />Knowing the hydrologic consequences will <br />potential damages, however remote, and alert the <br />the potential to take remedial mitigating action. <br /> <br />help call attention to <br />communities which have <br />