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<br />, <br /> <br />coordinator for one year. At present that role is being taken care of on a part-time basis by a . <br />member of the PPACG staff who has other responsibilities. <br /> <br />CWCB Technical Assistance <br /> <br />The CWCB has identified three potential forms of technical assistance for the Watershed Forum: <br />I) A detailed analysis of flood hydrology in the basin; 2) Preparation of GIS information for the <br />watershed, using existing GIS work of the various local governments (and others) as a point of <br />origin; and 3) Use of the CWCB funds in conjunction with a request for funding from the U.S. <br />Army Corps of Engineers for Section 22 assistance (Planning Assistance to States). <br /> <br />Flood Hydrology Analysis - The Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, is currently <br />conducting a technical review of flood hydrology of two geographical areas within the Fountain <br />Creek basin. The first geographic area includes Monument Creek (from its headwaters to its <br />confluence with Fountain Creek near downtown Colorado Springs) and1he portion of Fountain <br />Creek from that confluence downstream to the Fountain Creek confluence with the Arkansas <br />River (near downtown Pueblo), The second geographic area includes Fountain Creek upstream <br />of its confluence with Monument Creek (upstream from Colorado Springs to its headwaters near <br />Woodland Park). <br /> <br />The Corps of Engineers is preparing a statistical analysis ofthe 7 stream gages in the first stream <br />reach to compare to the current CWCB-designated values and to show the likelihood of being <br />able to eliminate the hydrologic discontinuity at the El Paso-Pueblo County line. The Corps gage <br />investigations will include an additional 20 years of data. The second stream reach was studied a <br />few years ago as part of a study prepared for the City of Colorado Springs. The Corps will <br />review the findings of the study with regard to that second stream reach and discuss its <br />acceptability. In a cursory way the Corps will look at how all of this information might be tied <br />together. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />It is likely that after the current Corps of Engineers hydrologic review has been completed, there <br />will still be a need for further hydrologic analysis. It would be unusual good fortune if the Corps <br />gage analysis resulted in flood hydrology that showed consistency from .one gage to another and <br />consistency with existing information. It is possible that the extensive work conducted for the <br />Colorado Springs study could be used in conjunction with the current Corps work to develop a <br />satisfactory analysis, There is a strong possibility, however, that additional funding would be <br />needed to perform a computer analysis of the entire watershed to tie the Corps' results at each <br />gage and some of the Colorado Springs information into a comprehensive hydrologic picture, <br />Once the Corps work has been completed, that question can be raised and answered, <br /> <br />If local governments and the CWCB deem it useful, the CWCB could, therefore, propose <br />spending part of the $50,000 to conduct rainfall-runoff analyses for the reach from the . <br />downstream end of Colorado Springs downstream to the Arkansas River confluence in Pueblo <br /> <br />4 <br />