READINGS:  FLOOD CASE STUDIES

  National water summary 1988-89: hydrologic events and floods and droughts http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/WSP/wsp_2375.djvu
  Storm and flood of July 31-August 1, 1976, in the Big Thompson River and Cache la Poudre River basins, Larimer and Weld Counties, Colorado   (USGS PP 1115)
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/PP/pp_1115.djvu
  1976 Big Thompson Flood, Colorado - Thirty Years Later (fact sheet) http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3095/
  Nevada / Western U.S. floods  
  Glancy, P.A. and Harmsen, L., 1975, A Hydrologic Assessment of the September 14,1974, Flood in Eldorado Canyon, Nevada, Professional Paper 930, (Open File Report 75-14).

http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/PP/pp_930.djvu

  Katzer, T.L., Glancy, P.A. and Harmsen, L., 1976, A Brief Hydrologic Appraisal of the July 3-4, 1975, Flash Flood in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, (Open File Report 76-100). http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/OFR/1976/ofr_76_100.djvu
  Thomas, C.A., and Lamke, R. D., 1962, Flood of February 1962 in Southern Idaho and Northeastern Nevada, (USGS Numbered Series Circular 467).
  Hess, G.W., and Williams, R.P., 1997, Flood of January 1997 in the Truckee River Basin, Western Nevada, (USGS Numbered Series Fact Sheet 123-97).
   
   
   
 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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