branmuffin
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The depth of a mountain stream is difficult to determine, but the minimum average stream flow at Nathrop, which is below Monarch Pass was 482 Gallons per minute minimum during May 2020. For comparison, my city block has 24 houses that water their lawns using 1.5 horsepower shallow well water pumps which move 21.3 gallons per minute. If we are all sprinkling at the same time, which we are prone to doing on hot summer weekends, we are pumping 553.8 gallons per minute. If we had to depend on the South Arkansas River, we would be "up the creek without a paddle", as they say; and our lawns would brown very quickly after we sucked the "river" dry. IMO
USGS Current Conditions for USGS 07091200 ARKANSAS RIVER NEAR NATHROP, CO
Goulds J7S JS+ Series - 21.3 GPM 3/4 HP Cast Iron Shallow Well Jet Pump
So would that volume of water carry a body down river?