History of Lee's Ferry

[Shawn]

I'm making my way thru this book, which I find fascinating. Much talk of the varying Colorado River flow thru the years, all before the dams were built remember, and flow became regulated. Per the USGS gage there, the current flow tonight is 20,100 cfs, opposed to long term average of 8,189.

Imagine what 181,000 cfs looked like on 6/18/21.

Or the 225,000 to 300,000 estimated for the crest of the 1884 flood. No gauges existed in 1884, but Jerry Johnson cut a notch in a peach tree in 1884 marking the high water, and in 1922 after the gauges were set, Irving Cockroft estimated the flow between 225k and 300k cfs.
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[RedRoxx44]

It took me several utah trips to get through that book. It is every thing that ever happened at that place. For such a small spot on the map a lot went on there are far as people living there and passing through. I'm a pretty fast reader and that one took some time for me. Good book.
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[Trishness]

I've read it.....and it's great. Some very interesting history there.
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~~~Trish~~~

"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings.