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<br />75 <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />O~1861 <br /> <br />~ flood of 1921, as reported in Water Supply Paper No. 487, the total <br />damage was estimated at $10,000,000, with enormous losses to rail- <br />roads. It is stated therein that Denver and Rio Grande trains and <br />a Missouri PctCific train were caught in the flood, causing their <br />destruction and the loss of several lives. The situation is more <br />critical at Trinidad with main lines of the A. T. & S. F. and the <br />C. & S. railroads occupying the immediate narrow valley with their <br />depots and yards. The 1,000-year flood would be a catastrophe, with <br />damage estimated at $3,000,000. Drunage from floods of from l- to <br />lO-year frequency is estimated to average $3,000 per year. <br />Below Trinid(ld. <br />(c) Flood damage occurs to irrigation systems, irrigated <br />bnds, personal property, and highways. For the 1904. flood the <br />EHJtimated damage waS $76,400 to irrigation systems and ~1:33,000 to <br />lands and highway bridges. For the ]$25 flood these were $37,500 <br />and $5,000, respectively, or a total of $42,500. <br />It is estimated that dGmngesof fully $100,000 would <br />result to irrigation systems with recu:t'rence of the 1904 flood <br />in view of additional development in the channel. Flows of the <br />1904 magnitude would destroy all diversion dams, bank erosion <br />would be serious, and reconstruction of diversion facilities <br /> <br />would take considerablc time. In s orne instances lands might be <br /> <br /> <br />without water for an entire irrigation season. A proper allowance <br /> <br /> <br />for this damage is estimated at $8.00 an acre, or a total of $l56,000, <br /> <br /> <br />for lands under ditches below Trinidad. A nai. highway bridge has <br /> <br />. <br />