FLOOD10502 ‎(2)‎

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: State of Colorado - 2007 Flood Documentation Reports
• Date: 8/1/2007
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: ICON Engineering
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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John Leyba I The Denver Pos1

Dave Bumgarner, 31, rides the Union Avenue boat chute Monday on the South
Platte River in Denver. The Colorado Springs resident was taking advantage of fast
condlllons. The river reached a flow of about 5,000 cfs early Monday.

Hole in Pueblo levee floods basin

By Jeremy p, Meyer
Denver Post Staff Writer

Mountain snow and rain on the plains
swelled Colorado rivers but probably
didn't playa rolc in Monday's failure of a
Pueblo levce.
The levee on Fountain Creek was
breached about 8:30 a.m. when a loo-foot
hole developcd, sending half the creek's
flow into a shallow basin with IS homes and
businesses.
Firefighters evacuated homes as about 6
feet of water filled in the so-acre basin
north of the city near a Wal.Mart shopping
center, according to Pueblo Fire Depart-
ment spokesman Woody Percival.
State water officials say the brcach was
not caused by cxcessive flow. which

rcached about 5,000 cubic feet per second
early Monday.
"That wasn't particularly because of ex-
cessively high water; it undoubtedly had
other problems." said Jack Byers, deputy
state engineer with the Colorado Division
of Water Resources.
Swollen rivers around the state are com-
mon this time of year but have not been oc-
curring during drought years. Byers said.
.We just haven't seen this since 1999." he
said. "We haven't had the snowpack."
'In Denver, the South Plalte River
reached a flow of about 5,000 cfs early Mon-
day from the surge of storm water and snow-
melt. '
"ii'he historic average for that date is ifl'st
under 1.000 cfs. according to state records.