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<br />/,.) <br /> <br /> <br />O~1825 <br />. <br /> <br />whi.ch i.s (,dopted for the lIk'lximum stOrE!. <br />HdnJ;<.tll-Runoff AndY2c:!-l! <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Floods on the Purgatoire River and the storms producing <br /> <br /> <br />the);! were "no_lyzed for 1922--1937, \,hen an "utOl;!"t.1.C :cecording g,'ge <br /> <br /> <br />\/as in opere.tion 'ct Trinickd. The flood of 1904 W<iS anulyzed from <br /> <br /> <br />d::Lk in U.S.G.f). v,ater Supply Paper No. 1/+7. The Pueblo flOOCl of <br /> <br /> <br />June 1921 is included, as llnalyzed on p"ge 57 of "11eport 'on Cherry <br /> <br /> <br />Creek Project" April 1938. In thct l' eport it ,,::;s <br /> <br /> <br />inuicated that 83,000 tlcre..feet cone froE, [in "rea of 870 square <br /> <br /> <br />miles and that 50,000 acre-feet of this =y ruwe come from an areo. <br /> <br /> <br />of 300 sq1.1Rre milen, corrLlsponuing to runoff of 1.79 i_nches Gnd <br /> <br /> <br />3.10 inches, resp\'Jcti v81y, rNlUlti.ng from r;. v,"rccge precipitation of <br /> <br /> <br />6.86 .:nd lO./,.O inches on the wo.tersheus contributing. <br /> <br /> <br />Table 10 presents th" per"U.nent rainf[;.lJ. and runoff dntu <br /> <br /> <br />referred to o.bove, which are plotted on drc,wing No. 256-D-l12. <br /> <br /> <br />1"01' 11Qximur.1 cOlldi.tionB, the) trend of dnt.: is considered to be' in- <br /> <br /> <br />fluenced by the Pueblo points for intenso rainfall and tho curve <br /> <br /> <br />is drawn to reflect this cendition. <br /> <br /> <br />The curve indicates 0. runoff of about 3 .inches, or <br /> <br /> <br />103,000 r,cre-feet, for the adopted maximum rainfi111 of 10 inches <br /> <br /> <br />',bove the Sopris reservoir. <br /> <br />. <br />