Hydrohistorian
Silt 18 inches deep deposited in front of Union Depot, Pueblo, Colorado. 1921.
U.S. Geological Survey · 1921 · U.S. Geological Survey
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Pueblo after the Arkansas came through in June 1921 -- eighteen inches of silt in the street outside Union Depot. The flood killed at least a hundred people and is why the Arkansas below Pueblo is engineered the way it is.
Shows: What the river did in the event that shaped a century of storage and flood works on the Arkansas.
What this does not let you conclude: A discharge. The peak was estimated afterwards from high-water marks, not gaged -- which is a recurring fact about the biggest floods in the record. The Arkansas River flood of 3-5 June 1921; published as Plate 5-A in a U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper.
Placed on
- Topic storage · plate
- Division 2 · gallery
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