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• County: Teller
• Community: Teller County
• Stream Name: Fountain Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Fountain Creek Stability - Phase I, II and III
• Date: 2/1/1997
• Prepared For: Teller County
• Prepared By: Chester C Watson, Ph.D.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

2. BACKGROUND INFORMA.TION
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The Fountain Creek drainage area is 11.5 square miles at the El Paso-Teller
Of this, 3.7 square miles are above 9,Q00 feet elevation. Much of the basin is
however, in recent years the area has become increasingly urbanized, for example, the
State Demographer data indicates that the population of Woodland Park has more tha~
Table 1. V4joodland Park Population
Year Populatioa Increase Since 1980
1980 2534 -
1991 4731 79.6%
1995 5761 118.7%
In the undeveloped area, vegetation consists of sparse stands of pine interspersed ~
meadows. Residential and commercial development is concentrated along U.S. H'ighw
line.
ioubled.
rith grass
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in the City of Woodland Park.
The average annual precipitation in the upper Fountain Creek basin is 20 inches, 'th 33%
to 50% of the total occurring as snow. Temperatures typically range from -30° F in the winter to
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100 F in the summer. Soils in the area are generally thin and rocky in the upper elevation , and are
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classified as Rule-Chesseman-Plome-Crystola. In the lower areas, a highly erodible gra~ular soil
originating from decomposed granite is prevalent. The channel bed of Fountain Creek is c'omposed
of bottom deposits of inedium to coarse sand up to several feet thick and banks of clayey sand and
decomposed granite. Bank erosion is active along Fountain Creek. Bed material samples along
Fountain Creek were collected in 1996, and sieve analysis was conducted on the sample . Figure
1 presents the result of those analyses.
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