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• County: El Paso
• County: Teller
• County: Pueblo
• Stream Name: Fountain Creek
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Fountain Creek Watershed Newsletter
• Date: 2/1/2008
• Prepared For: Public
• Prepared By: Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Presentation/Handout

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In This Issue
. Greetings
. On Going Planning EfForts
. Studies in Progress
. Rq,Ttdatory Issues
e Executive Summary
Army Corps of Engineers
Watershed Study
(Special I nserr Pages)
. Reports and Videos
Recently Completed
. Gram AppliGltions

. TIlings You May Not Have 1 I
Known About the Watershed

. Watershed Resources

TIlis newsletter and agendas for
upcoming meetings arc available on
the Fountain Creek Watershed
websitc at wwwJounrain-crk.urg.

For more information or if you have

suggestions for future newsletters,
Ph:asc contact:

Rich Muzzy, PPACG
Environmental Program Manager
15 South 7th Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
[phone] x 109
Fax [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

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Greetings!

1 I 'lhe Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments (PPACG) and the Pueblo Area Council of
Governments (PACOG) present the annual Fountain Creek Watershed Newslcrter, which
has been made possible through a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment (CDPHE).

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ON GOING PLANNING EFFORTS

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Fountain Creek Watershed Vision Task Force

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fOr more infOrmation please visit IVwwjountain-crk.org

TIle Fountain Creek Vision Task Force has been meeting since July 2006 to address problems
regarding water quality and quantity, environmental resources and land use in the watershed.
Working groups were developed ro discuss each of these issues in more detail and to develop a
comprehensive strategic plan for the watershed which will:

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· Identify the key issues in rhe watershed;
Develop strategies to address the issues; and
Develop an implementation plan,

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As parr of the strategic plan a series of individual repons will be developed which will summa-
rize water quality, agriculture, recreation, stormwater management, wetlands, municipal water
use, Hooding, erosion and sedimentation. A map of the current conditions, as well as project op-
porrunities and cOllStrainrs will also be developed. 'TIle repons will be posted on the Fountain
Creek website by early March; the map will be available in late April.

In addition, a funding options and project implementation working group is meeting to discuss
the formation of a watershed authority, and an outreach committee is meeting to discuss public
outreach and education techniques in the watershed. For further information or to join the
fountain Creek listserv comact [e-mail].

Peak to Prairie Project (Land Conservation Initiative)

fOr more infirmation please llisit wlVw.coloradoopenlallds.org

'Ihe Peak to Prairie Project is a large-scale conservation initiative focusing on key natural and
cultural resources in EI Paso, Pueblo, Lincoln and Crowley cOllnties. TIle project involves many
panners and stretches from Cheyenne Mountain in the west to the western half of Lincoln and
Crowley counties in the cast, from the City of Colorado Springs in the north to the City of
Pueblo and the Arkansas River in the south. 'I he project covers over 2.1 million acres of prairie,
creek, mountains and plains. 'lhrough a GOCO Legacy Gram, Colorado Open Lands n:ceived
1.75 million dollars that will be used for the Peak to Prairie Conservation Initiative. 'Ihis money,
in addition to a cash match of $3.7 million will be used ro purchase conservation casements
in the project area. Approximately $2.1 million will be used for El Paso County conservation
projects.

'Ihis project will address the mixed needs of a region facing rapid growth and the challenge of
maintaining working agricultural lands. It is a IO-year project to protect approximately 250,000
acres encompassing 28 miles of the Fountain Creek corridor. These lands provide breathtaking
scenery, wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities in lWO types oflandscapes - riparian cor-
ridors and imperiled shortgrass prairie,