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<br />Table 3.--Flood damage prevention credited to reservoirs <br />in the Republican River basin, by fiscal years <br /> <br />Flood control <br />dam <br /> <br />FY Flood damages prevented. in FY, in thousands <br />.!!.!ill.!.!21! 1953 .!2.22 l22l. 1960!2&l!2S.!!. <br /> <br />Bonny 1951 $293 $135 $1,050 $169 <br />Trenton 1953 x x 233 900 <br />Enders 1951 220 $104 '- 412 <br />Red Willow 1961 x x x x x <br />Medicine Creek 1949 14 5 198 <br />Harlan County 1953 x 1,045 4,853 <br />Lovewell 1957 x x x 349 178 <br /> <br />Total through 1961 <br /> <br />x indicates reservoir was inoperative <br />- indicates that no damage prevention was credited <br /> <br />9. DROUGHT OF THE 1950's <br /> <br />Prior to the flood of June 1957, the Republican River basin had <br />experienced an extremely severe and prolonged drought. Streamflow <br />at the gaging station near Hardy, Nebraska, for a period of 57 months, <br />August 1952 to April 1957, averaged only one-fifth of the long-term <br />average rate of discharge, as shown in table 4. Even if the down- <br />stream discharge had not been reduced by reservoir filling and by <br />irrigation consumption, the natural streamflows would have been less <br />than those during the previous severe drought of the 1930'a. The <br />only floods during the 1952-57 drought were those caused by localized, <br />intense rainfalls, ~entioned above. <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />