Plum Creek at Lockhart

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What floods at each level

• 23 ft

  Disastrous widespread flooding is over a mile wide from the headwaters to the Guadalupe River. Businessesflood in Uhland. Lowest homes in the flood plain are inundated over the length of Plum Creek. Highway 183 near Lockhart floods extensively.

• 22 ft

  The flow is nearly a mile wide, flooding Highway 183 in the left flood plain. There is widespread damage to crops. Livestock are isolated and drowned in the pastureland. Primary and secondary roads and bridges are severely flooded. Oil tank batteries and pump jacks are flooded. Lower homes in the flood plain are flooded.

• 21 ft

  Flow is above the level of the 20.89 feet Nov 24, 1989 flood. Extensive damage to crops, livestock, and lower homes in the flood plain. Many primary and secondary roads and bridges are flooded and closed.

• 19 ft

  Major flooding causes extensive crop and pastureland flooding, isolating and potentially drowning livestock, and flooding secondary and primary roads, low bridges, and lowest homes in the flood plain.

• 15 ft

  Moderate lowland flooding merges with a secondary channel in the left flood plain, becoming 1/2 mile wide.

• 14 ft

  Minor lowland flooding. Flooding reaches the lowest areas of the flood plain.

• 12 ft

  BANKFULL.

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