WSP05900

• File Number: 8180.800
• Description: Purgatoire River Project
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 3/24/1951
• Title: Report made by Bostick on Picket Wire -Purgatoire-
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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August 25th - B18 rUe for 2 hours. Yeter bulb washed out.
August 26th - Big rise
August 27th - Big rise
August 28th - Big rise
August 31et - Big riee

1930 - Week ending July 26th - Since Monday (21st) SOllIe water haa been
passing to D1lltrict (ll7 varying frQlll 10 feet to 300 feet.
Last night (25th) for an hour it might have been 7 or 8
hundred feet.
Week ending August 2nd"; River roee twioe 1'.0 a gage 505 ft.
10,000 ft. River averaged II. :2 ft. gage all week. 929
ft. passing out of the 1400.
Week ending Auguet 9th - .Anywhere from 20 to 220 ft. Estimated
average of 72 ft. daily PGBsing.
Week ending AllgUlIt 16th - Varying from 6 to 1500 ft., average 75
ft.
August 18th - 120 ft.
Week ending August 30th - An average of 37 ft. pll8sed..
September 5th - A flood for 3 hour8 passed an average 165 far
the 24 hour da;y.
October 1 - 100 ft. over the Hoehne for 2 houn.
Ootober 2nd - Prohllbly 2000,' ft.
October 11th - 200 ft. for 12 hoW'e.

1931 - Mlll"eh 9th - Vode1 P.sservoir 18 mil. Cut out as they are
afraid of high winds. All tho flOff of river except
North Lake Inlet ill passing to D1Btr1ct /117. 33 ft.
Week ending March 21st - .All passing to District H17, 45 ft.
Woek ending lJarch 28th - All passing to District #17, average
48 !'t.
April 2nd and 3rd - 65 !'t.
\'leek ending April 11th - A daily averaI'll 48 ft.. pulling.
i'leek ending Lls;y 2nd - From 30 to 100 ft. passing
'lVeel< ending /lay 9th - A dllily average of 74 ft. passing.
Week snding 1Ie;y 16th - A dally average of 54 ft. passing.
Week ending May 23rd - A daily avernf;e of 100 !'t. pa!lsing.
Week ending Ms;y 30th - A daily average of 248 ft.. P11S8:1.ng.
Week ending June 6th - A doily nverage of 48 ft. plIssing.
June 13th - Heavy rain and hail f<'lr 2 hours put the water 3 or
4 ft. deep over the Hoehne DIIlII.
July 3r d - A small flood for 3 haure.
July 18th - 2100 A.M. river rose to a gage of 1.3 not much
pa80ed the Hoehne.
July 31st - 40 ft. passing
AUlJ1l8t lBt - 400 ft.pas8ing

1932 - June 24th - 2000 ft. for 2 hours.)
June 25th - 3000 ft. for 2 hours)) A weekly average of 60 !'to
Woek ending July 2nd - Had 3 floods Sunday, 1i'ednesday and
saturday from 10 ft. to Sooo paseing.
July 23rd - 10,000 ft. for 1 hour, 3000 for 2 hDars, than 2000.
A daily avera.ge of 107 ft.

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