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<br />SECTION III <br />STUDY AREA DESCRIPTION <br /> <br />".'</ <br />~ <br />" <br /> <br />The following sub.S('(:tions provide a description of the Monument Creek basin, climale, <br />flood history, soils and geology, and impervious area, <br /> <br />I <br />, <br />I \ <br />------ <br />, ~'" .-' <br />,~~ <br />~.. -1 <br />j~ <br />I <br />, <br />I <br />, <br />I <br /> <br />, <br />,4/ <br />, <br />~" "- <br />)-90ENV <br />'U <br /> <br />-\ <br />~\ <br />u <br /> <br />00>001, <br /> <br />Basin Description <br />The area of study for this report is the Monumeot Creek drainage basin. Monument <br />Creek is a tributary to Fountain Creek which in turn is tributary to the Arkansas River. As <br />shown in Figure I, the confluence of Monument Creek and Fountain Creek occurs within the <br />City of Colorado Springs, just southwest of downtown. The Monument Creek drainage basin <br />contains an area of approltimalely 239 square miles. The basin is generally fan.shaped and <br />oriented in a north-south direction. Figure 2 depicts the Monument Creek drainage basln in <br />relation to the City of Colorado Springs and the Towns of Monument and Palmer Lake. Table 2 <br />indicates the areas of the Monument Creek tributary. <br />Table 2 also indicates whether the sub-basin is a left or right bank tributary to Monument <br />Creek. The left bank tributaries are generally high plains basins with some rolling hills. The <br />general slope of these sub-basins is from east to west. The!\ebasinsaregenerallycharaclerized <br />by grass cover with oc::casiollal areas of shrubs. Some area~ include coniferous and deciduous <br />trees, The coniferous trees in the left bank tributaries are generally found in the northeast <br />portion of the Monument Creek basin in the area generally known as the "Black Forest". The <br />right bank tributaries are typically mountainous sut>-ha<ins with Sleep slopes. These basins are <br />generally covered witllconiferous rrees.grass, ami ,hrub,. TIlctotalelevativndiffercncewit..'1irl <br />the baNin is approJlimatdy 3.800 feet. The highest point in the basin is at an elevation of 9.727 <br />feet above sea!evel and the elevation at the confluence with Fountain Creek isa tan elevation of <br />5,945 feet. <br />Monument Creek is apprOJlimately 33 miles in length. The flow direction of the creek is <br />west to easl for appro~imately the first eight miles. Near the Town of Monument, the creek <br />alignment changes 10 a southerly direction. parallel to the Front Range mountains, until its <br />confluence with Fountain Creek at Colorado Sprin!!:s, <br /> <br />~OUkAS <br />COUNTY <br /> <br />" <br />.' <br />.' <br />" <br />< <br />"\ <br />, <br /> <br />~LBSRT <br />CCU/HY <br /> <br />rRE"'O~' cc <br /> <br /> <br />25 <br /> <br /> <br />24 <br /> <br />24 <br /> <br />-.- <br />, <br /> <br />, <br />, <br />, <br />~-----L., ! " <br />L--'1 <br />, <br />~- <br /> <br />'<lLE" <br />VlUNrY <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br /> <br />FI p.~~() <br />"". "" ,v <br /> <br />, <br />, <br /> <br />"-. <br /> <br />J J <br /> <br />"RR <br />----...44'$4S <br /> <br />Climale <br />The Monumenl Creek basin of EJ Paso County can be described in general as high plains <br />and foothills, with lOlal precipitation amounts typIcal of a semi.arid fllgion, Winter, arc <br />generally cold and dry_ Pm::ipitation ranges from 1410 16 in~hcsperyear.with the majority of <br />this precipitation occurring between April and Sepl<:mber in the form of rainfall. Thunden;tomlS <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />" "i"t_ <br />~ <br /> <br />Ill.] <br /> <br />FIGURE I <br />VICINITY MAP <br />