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Flash Flooding in the Colorado
National Monument: Geomorphic Process and Neighborhood
Nuisance
Gigi A. Richard
Associate Professor of Geology
Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction, CO
Prepared in cooperation with the
Colorado National Monument
US National Park Service
And with the assistance of the
Association of Women Geoscientists’
Geologist in the Park Program
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Image from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov,
Posted March 6, 2011. Acquired April 2, 2002
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“The forces of water and wind,
freezing and thawing, acting over vast
spans of time, built the spires, domes,
and sheer canyon walls of Colorado
National Monument.”
Prof. Bill Hood, http://www.nps.gov/colm/naturescience/erosion
.htm
“Colorado National
Monument was
established to
preserve, study, and
enjoy the geological
resources and
processes…”http://www.nps.gov/colm/naturescience/envi
ronmentalfactors.htm
Photo: G. Richard
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Drainages of
the Colorado
National
Monument
Redlands Area
City of Grand
Junction
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No Thoroughfare Canyon along Monument Road
Sept 7, 1978
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No Thoroughfare Wash at Monument Rd September 7, 1978
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No Thoroughfare Wash - September 7, 1978
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No Thoroughfare Wash at Monument Rd, Sept. 1978
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No
Thoroughfare
Wash
Sept. 7, 1978
Flood
Sediment
deposition
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Red Canyon at S. Camp Rd.
Sept. 7, 1978
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Flash Flood
Potential Steep canyons
Bare rock
Low permeability
Intense rainfall
Sparse vegetation
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Flood Producing Rainfall
Date
CNM Daily
Rainfall *
(inches)
Grand
Junction
Walker Field
Daily
Rainfall *
(inches)
GJDS Daily
Rainfall
(inches) Storm Rainfall (inches)
CNM
Monthly
Rainfall *
(inches)
August 24, 1921 1.43 3.65 in at Walker Field (GJDS)
August 8, 1948 0.13 0.89 0.89 in (0.42in/15min) (CNM) 2.34
July 3, 1949 0.16 0.85
July 7, 1949 0.02 1.02
July 28, 1950 0.14 0.12 1.70
August 6, 1957 2.55 0.56 0.21 1.87 in/2hrs (CNM) 6.66
August 8, 1968 1.93 4.24
September 7, 1978 0.66 0.43 0.64 3 in between GJ & Clifton (GJDS) 0.75
September 2, 1990 0.26 0.53 0.75 in/45 min (GJDS) 1.74
July 11, 1992 0.02 0.44 0.74
July 24, 1998 0.09 2 in/40 min (GJDS) 0.89
July 10, 2001 1.61 0.3 0.9 in total, 0.75in/1hr (GJDS - in Glade Park) 2.33
CNM = Colorado National Monument Gage and Records*
GJDS = Grand Junction's The Daily Sentinel
*All gage records were obtained from the Western Regional Climate Center, http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/
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Recurrence
Interval
CNM
Headquarters
Rainfall (inches)
24-hr 24-hr 6-hr
100-yr 2.6 2.6 1.8
50-yr 2.3 2.3 1.6
25-yr ----- 2.1 1.5
10-yr 1.5 1.7 1.2
5-yr 1.0 1.4 1.0
2-yr 0.7 1.0 0.8
NOAA Atlas 2
Rainfall (inches)
Rainfall Frequency
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Flash Flood
History
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Flash Flood
History
Fruita Canyon
1968
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August 8, 1968
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August 8, 1968
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Results of Historic Study
Flash floods
Result from intense and localized rainstorms over the CNM
Have occurred repeatedly in recent, historic and
geologic time
Nothing new…
What HAS changed
Increased suburban development in potentially flood prone areas
• Not mapped by FEMA
Led to more questions…
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2007 Study of
Channel
Morphology of
No
Thoroughfare
Wash
Channel-forming
discharge?
Incision rates?
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Upper Canyon Reach – Incision rates
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Alluvial Reach
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Future Possibilities
Better understanding of magnitude and frequency of rainfall that causes flash floods More rain gages?
Use of RADAR data?
Streamflow data Needed for calibration of models
Study of morphology and channel-forming discharge in other drainages Greg Indivero’s study
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Acknowledgements
Dave Price, National Park Service
AWG, Geologist in the Park Program
2007 NSF-REU students - Aaron Becker, Lauren
DiPerna, Kathryn Ladig, John Wellik
Prof. Jim Johnson, photos
Bill Hood, Paul VonGeurard and Megan McGuire
And in honor of Peter LarsonA pdf of the report is available at home.mesastate.edu/~grichard