FLOOD04800

• County: El Paso
• Community: Colorado Springs
• Stream Name: Cottonwood Creek
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Engineering Study of Cottonwood Creek Drainage Basin
• Date: 8/7/1979
• Prepared For: Colorado Springs
• Prepared By: Lincoln Devore
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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From Academy Boulevard to the railroad

arch near Point 11, the channel of Cottonwood Creek is deeply in-

cised and some sandstone lines the channel. In this reach, it may

be impractical to widen the channel as recommended, Adequatedepth

exists to carry the flow in the existing channel. It is, therefore,

more practical to leave this reach in its existing condition,

except for smoothing a few of the more radical bends to allow

smoother flow,

The channel of the south, Sub-basin

23, is gradually being converted to a man-made channel throughout

its entire length, At the outfall, it consists of the adequately

sized channel down the center of Dublin Drive, Constrictions exist

at the outfall itself and at crossing culverts along the channel,

From Dublin Drive to Tuckerman, the channel is still essentially

natural, It is also somewhat swampy. If this area is ever to be

developed as assumed herein, a lined channel with subdrains will be

required through this reach, Basically, this channel would follow

the existing drainageway,

From Tuckerman to Union, the channel

is entirely man-made at present. The water problems in the

Maroon Bells Street area make it imperative that some underdrains

be completed in the area immediately above the existing ditch

paralleling Maroon Bells. The remaining reach of this channel is

now being drained by a storm sewer system along Vickers Drive,

The channels in the north basin (B)

do not extend far into the basin, Drainage improvement must

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