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flood on Monument Creek, 50,000 cfs (Reference 10). In Colorado Springs, Monument Creek attained its peak flow within 2.5 hours and was back within the banks 3 hours later. The flow rate of this flood exceeded the estimated 500-year peak flow rate of the area. Below the confluence of Jimmy Camp Creek with Fountain Creek, the June 1965 flood probably exceeded all known floods in EI Paso County. This flood was caused primarily by Jimmy Camp Creek. At a point 4.5 miles above the confluence with Fountain Creek, the estimated peak discharge was 124,000 cfs (Reference 9), which is estimated to be a recurrence interval far exceeding 500 years. . The following summaries of floods were taken primarily from a USGS publication (Reference II) and from USACE files. June 10 1864. The Coiorado Sprinlls Gazette of June 27, 1864, in a series of articles on early happenings, refers to the flood of 1864 as follows: There had been several thundershowers and the creeks were somewhat swollen, though not so much as to cause any apprehension. But by 4 o'clock ... a heavy cloud came up over Cheyenne Mountain and the sky gathered darkness until nearly sundown, when rain and hail began to fall in tremendous torrents... The rain came down, not in drops but in floods, the hail consisted of huge lumps of ice, some of them over 3 inches in diameter; the whole surface of the country was flooded as though it were a vast lake, and in some of the ravines the water rushed along in torrents 20 or 30 feet deep. The storm continued in full violence until about 9 o'clock. The area of the storm was confined within a radius of 3 or 4 miles. May 20 1878. Although the few available precipitation records for 1878 indicate no general storm. a cloudburst near Palmer Lake caused a flood that was reported by the Rocky Mountain News of May 20, 1878. as follows: Monument and Fountain Creeks swept out bridges. EI Paso County Losses very heavy, caused by cloudburst in valley near Divide, followed by hail. July 26 1885. This is the eariiest flood of record in the Templeton Gap Basin, and apparently the most severe. The Colorado Sprinlls Gazette. July 26, 1885. gives the following account: H. T. Cook. who resides 5 miles northeast of Templeton Gap says that for an hour during the evening (July 25) there was an incessant fall of rain to the extent that a tub near the house filled with water in the space of an hour. This indicates a rainfall of about 16 inches. Immediately the mighty torrent came tearing down the gulch which runs through the ranch below the house and, not withstanding the house is iocated 15 feet above the gulch, the water completely surrounded it for a long distance at a depth of several feet. The II