Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science Volume 56 Annual Issue Article 28 1949 Hydrologic Comparisons for Floods of June 1947 in Iowa L. C. Crawford University of Iowa Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Copyright ©1949 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias Recommended Citation Crawford, L. C. (1949) "Hydrologic Comparisons for Floods of June 1947 in Iowa," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 56(1), 199-223. Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol56/iss1/28 This Research is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa Academy of Science at UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by an authorized editor of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Crawford: Hydrologic Comparisons for Floods of June 1947 in Iowa Hydrologic Comparisons for Floods of June 1947 in Iowa 1 By L. c. CRAWFORD Man has always been plagued by floods and it is reasonable to expect that he will continue to be faced with a variety of flood prob lems in the years to come. The great floods of June 1947 in Iowa were a tragic reminder of the continuing danger which Man faces from excess rainfall and runoff. Those floods were outstanding, not only with respect to the depths and intensities of the rainfall which produced them, but also with regard to the maximum rates and total amounts of runoff which resulted and the tremendous quantities of soil which were washed from the land.