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kmaysob · #1 12-17-2013, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

It comes with the territory. Glad you had no serious damage. In 2001 we had a flood here. The creek that crosses my property, which normally has a base flow of about 300cfs, crested at 22K cfs. I had no structures damaged as everything is well out of the flood plain, but my all my fences along the creek were toast, the property was littered with other peoples' stuff including propane tanks, dead cattle, outdoor furniture, an entire deck off somebody's house, you name it. Worst thing was we had an irrigation intake built into the creek that was grandfathered, and it blew out completely. I'm not allowed to replace it under the protected status of the creek. I now have to use a pump to pull my water rights out of the creek and into my ditch.

what part of az are you in? almost sounds like the flood that blew through tuba a few years back

elchivito · #2 12-18-2013, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kmaysob

what part of az are you in? almost sounds like the flood that blew through tuba a few years back

Interesting coincidence. I lived near TC a long time ago. My inlaws are from a village near there. I know the flood you're talking about. Moencopi Wash broke it's banks and caused some havoc. A buddy of mine put his kayak into Moencopi Wash where it crosses highway 160 east during that flood and boated the wash all the way to the Little Colorado confluence.
My flood was on Spring Creek, which feeds Oak Creek in the Verde Valley. The Verde that year went from a base flow of about 600cfs to nearly 50K. Our biggest flood was in the winter of 93. All the dams on the Oak Creek > Verde> Salt> Gila> Colorado system were breached at one point. A bunch of us, drinking beer and looking at maps one night during that flood figured out that it was theoretically possible, for the first time in a VERY long time, to put kayaks into Oak Creek at Sedona and boat all the way to the Sea of Cortez, with only a few portages around key dams.