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<br />'-;,: <br /> <br />,',... <br /> <br />':.,-::~,:' ~'.~::, '.~ <br /> <br />:,',' , <br />'--..' <br /> <br />'{~<::~~;,~it:~~:;;::/ ..~/;',;:, <br /> <br />"'.;e.,_,;i ;</,;::,~,:r;':9~;;#~.:':~fs~i';:{,~':@?:~{~r':;~~~:~:-, <br /> <br /> <br />, ~ " <br /> <br />".....\ <br />~ ;-;:"'\- <br /> <br />",q)::',,';.,::" <br /> <br />000088 <br /> <br />':.<'~..:-:';,:; <br />" .. ~ '\ <br />, ~ ' '::. <br /> <br />..... <br />" . <br /> <br />,.".' <br /> <br />~,' : <br /> <br />VIII - EFFECT OF WATER CONTROL PLN, <br /> <br />:'.,:":';'~" .' <br />,', ~ ;- <br />'" .'.. <br /> <br />J-Ol. General. The Pueblo Dam and Reservoir will regulate <br />floodflows so far as possible to obtain the maximum practical <br />reduction in flood damages. The project controls about one- <br />third of the Arkansas River Basin above Las Animas and thus has <br />major flood control effects. Control of the design flood witllUut <br />releases from the reservoir will generally be required because <br />Fountain Creek and the St. Charles River will normally be in flood <br />stage when there are large inflows into the reservoir. <br /> <br />. !'.' .':;:'.' <br />;~;'(/Y:}:: <br /> <br />'~'. ., <br /> <br />'.., ..." <br />., , <br /> <br />,~ :,', . <br /> <br />, -.,:,' ~:. <br /> <br />, :"-. <br /> <br />8-02. Spillway Design Flood. <br /> <br />a. General. A design storm based on the envelopment of <br />the adjusted values obtained from the transposition of the <br />2-6 June 1921, above Pueblo, storm: the 17 June 1965, over Kiowa <br />Creek storm: and the 14-18 June 1965, near Holly, Colorado, storm <br />WAS developed. This design storm study presented precipitation <br />values for varioua-sized drainalle areas above Pueblo Oa,. sit" <br />ranKinr, fron. 500 to 2,500 square miles. It was d"tennineu tllUt <br />the critical-sized areas for the desilln rainflood contribution <br />were 500 square miles snd l,500 square miles. A I-hour uniq;raph <br />fOT the SOO-square-mile area and II 2-hour unitgral'b. for the <br />l,500-squllre-mile area was L1etermined by the Clark Method. The <br />maximum snowmelt flood of record at Cauon City occurreLl in <br />June-JulY 1957, with the maximum l5-day period 26 June - 10 July <br />1957. This adopted snowmelt hyLlrogral'h was combined with the <br />rainflood hydro graph to become the uesign flood hydrograph. The <br />timing is such that the peak of the rain flood hydro graph occurs <br />6 days sfter the snowmelt peak. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />'.~.'.' <br /> <br />,.... " <br /> <br />,I.': <br /> <br /> <br />b. Volume Inflow Design Flood (Spillway Desi~n Flood). <br />The volume design rain flood was computed using the design rain <br />occurring over 1,500 square miles, the 2-hour unitgraph, and <br />a constant retention loss of 0.415 inch per hour. This, when <br />combined with the snowmelt base flood, resulteLl in a peak flow <br />of 270,000 c.f.s., a maximum 2-day volume of 399,000 acre-feet, <br />and a maximum l4-day volume of 582,000 acre-feet. This flood, <br />being critical, was adopted as the Spillway lJesign Flood. Plate <br />:\-1 show" the operational and' flood hydrOI\raphs anu re"ervoir <br />scar.e. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />,.. <br />, ,~. <br /> <br />c. Peak Inflow llesign Flood. Using a constant ret"ution <br />loss of 0.40 inch per hOUT, the excesses from the 3-hour storm, <br />given a critical arrangement according to the I-hour unitgraph <br />for 500 square miles were applied to that unitgraph to compute <br />the peak rainflood. TIlis, combined with the snowmelt base flood, <br />re"ulted in a peak flow of 550,000 c.f.s., a maximum 6-day volume <br /> <br />,,' <br /> <br />,.:. <br /> <br />,.'. <br /> <br />.1 <br /> <br />. ,'~ ' <br />~. . , <br /> <br />8-1 <br /> <br />.;. <br /> <br />','" <br />