WSP05149

• File Number: 8180.800
• Description: Purgatoire River Project
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 9/1/1949
• Author: RJ Tipton
• Title: Engineering Report on Flood Control and Irrigation District with Particular Reference to the Piedmont Bridge Dam and Reservoir Site
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Flood Da.ma,:z;es

Flood da.mages below the Piedmont Bridge Reservoir site,

as estimated by the City and County representatives from their

investigations, are listed in ,the following table.

Purported Flood Damages - Trinidad and Vicinity
(Determined by City and County)

1.

Erosion of Crop Land
11.6 acres/~r @ $100.00

Deposition of Sterile Silt on
Crop Land - 3.4 acres!yr
@ $100.00

2.

3.

Crop LOBS from Flooding and Erosion
851 acres/yr @ $100.00

4 .

Crop Loss Due to Lack of Water
@ $lOO/acre

5.
6.

Livestock Loss

Personal Property, Fences, Small
Ditches, etc., in Agricultural
area

7. Miscelianeous Farm Damages

8. Corporation or Large Ditches

9. City of Trinidad - Bridges, Build-
ings, Merchandise, etc.

10. County Bridges, Roads, etc.

11. Siltage Loss on Farms

12. Corporation LOSSes - Railroads
and Utilities

Total without items (3) and (4)

Crop Losses

Total

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Avera~e Annual
Damages - 1949
Bas is

$

1,160.00

340.00

( 85,IOO.00)

(2,282,360.00 )

1,100.00

2,149.00
870.00
18,222.00

44,583.00

10,000.00

25,951. 00

26,680.00
$ 131,055.00
3,000.00
$ 134,055.00

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