FLOOD01954

• Designation Number: 420
• County: El Paso
• Community: Colorado Springs
• Title: FIS - Colorado Springs, CO, Volume I of III
• Date: 8/16/1995
• Designation Date: 3/1/1996
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

to Sand Creek, Sand Creek East Fork and Sand Creek Center Tributary,
were also studied in detail.

Shooks Run is divided into two separate and distinct reaches, North
Shooks Run (Templeton Gap Drainage Basin) and South Shooks Run.

The Templeton Gap Drainage Basin (North Shooks Run) originates in
northeastern Colorado Springs in a cuplike depression, surrounded by
hills. It flows southwesterly along and parallel to Templeton Gap
Road, until it is intercepted by the Templeton Gap Floodway and
diverted northwesterly to Monument Creek. South Shooks Run begins at
the Templeton Gap Floodway, and runs parallel to Templeton Gap Road
for approximately 2 miles before flowing southerly for approximately
5 miles to join Fountain Creek near the southern corporate limits,
approximately 0.25 mile east of U.S. Highway 85-87. The stream
originates in a residential area and throughout its course flows
through residential or business areas.

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Spring Creek originates in east-southeastern Colorado Springs, flows
southwesterly, and JOlns. Fountain Creek near the Jantell Road
crossing. The creek divides into two definite streams near Airport
Road (Spring Creek and Spring Creek East Fork). The Spring Creek
valley is relatively wide in the northern two-thirds of the basin,
becoming deep and narrow in the lower one-third. Long reaches of
Spring Creek are concrete lined in industrial and commercial areas.
Spring Creek also flows through a lake on Valley Hi Golf Course.

The Templeton Gap
Templeton Gap Road,

Floodway, originating near Acacia Drive
diverts North Shooks Run into Monument Creek.

and

Physiographically, the study area east of Monument and Fountain
Creeks is characterized by gently sloping plains; west of the creeks,
by mountain ranges and basins. There are some horizontal sedimentary
outcrops in the Black Forest area which represent rock formations
from the Rocky Mountain uplift some 60 million years ago. Exposed
sedimentary rocks along the edge of the mountain front are tilted.
Above the sedimentary foothills the pre-Cambrian mountain core is
largely of pikes Peak granite.

Soils of the region are largely gray desert soils with "islands" of
dry, sandy soil on the plains, alluvial gravels capping foothill
mesas, and arid-subhumid lithosoils in the mountains.

Generally, the areas west of Monument and Fountain Creeks have high
coefficients of runoff, steep stream gradients, and narrow flood
plains. Areas east of the streams generally have lower coefficients
of runoff, gradual elevation changes, and relatively broad streambeds
and flood plain areas.

Within the region, precipitation varies considerably because of
elevations and major wind currents. Winter storms, typically from
the northwest, tend to lose their moisture on the west side of the
Rocky Mountains. The main precipitation in the front range comes
through late spring snows influenced by southeasterly winds on

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