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<br />May 27, 1922. This flood was produced by an intense local downpour <br />over the Templeton Gap drainage area. A 6-inch rainfall was recorded <br />during the storm. Damage to the extent of $59,700 was caused by <br />the flood in Colorado Springs, where a residential district in the <br />eastern portion of the city was inundated. <br /> <br />July 30, 1932. This is the maximum known flood in the Templeton <br />Gap area. It was greater than the 1922 flood and caused $144,800 <br />worth of damage. No rainfall data are available, and records indi- <br />cate that this flood was produced by a cloudburst, typical of those <br />occurring in this area. This cloudburst occurred in the Black <br />Forest with a wall of water sweeping down through Templeton Gap, <br />flooding Papetown mining settlements just north of Colorado Springs <br />and flooding most of northern Colorado Springs. Rain during July <br />27-30, 1932, caused flooding on Fountain Creek from its headwaters <br />to its mouth. <br /> <br />May 31, 1935. This storm was concentrated in the Fountain Creek <br />Basin, chiefly over Kettle Creek. <br /> <br />In describing this flood, which was the greatest known on Monument <br />Creek, the Colorado Springs Gazette, on May 31, 1935, stated: <br /> <br />The destructive flood waters from half a dozen cloudbursts <br />swept through Monument Valley. . . shortly after noon. Earlier, <br />a cloudburst had sent Sand Creek, east of Colorado Springs, <br />on a tear . . . four lives were lost in Colorado Springs and <br />the property damage, exclusive of that suffered by the rail- <br />roads, was estimated by the city engineer as $1,215,000.00. <br /> <br />In Colorado Springs, Monument Creek reached flood stage in less <br />than 1 hour, attained its peak 1.5 hours later, receded slightly <br />for 1.5 hours, and was back within its channel 1.5 hours later. <br /> <br />2.4 Flood Protection Measures <br /> <br />11 <br /> <br /> <br />The Templeton Gap Floodway (Reference 4) consists of a 10,590- <br />foot-long trapezoidal channel extending from Templeton Gap in a <br />southwesterly direction to Mile 5 on Monument Creek. The floodway <br />has a capacity of 14,000 cfs (approximately a 100-year frequency <br />flood). <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />The Peterson Field Dra~nage is controlled by streamwater detention <br />ponds sited at the Peterson Airfield. These ponds substantially <br />reduce the peak flows from the upper 3.5 square miles of drainageway. <br /> <br />Beginning in late 1939, as an aftermath of the destructive May <br />1935 flood, the city sponsored flood-control work that eventually <br />provided 2.6 miles of continuous improved channel on Monument Creek <br />