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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in the basin and to recommend changes or the placing of new struc-

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tures if this should be required. The study was to be conducted
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in two separate portions. The upper and middle basin was to be,

studied only'to the extent of determining the major stream flow

and constrictions on the flow, if any, The western portion of

the basin was to be studied in detail. This western portion was

defined as the extension of the north-south section line between

Sections 2 and 3, Township 13 south, Range 67 west of the 6th

Principal Meridian, In fact, it was found that detailed study was

required for a distance of approximatelyl-lj2 miles east of this

line.

To accomplish this study, the total

area was divided into three portions, labeled Basin A, Basin Band

Basin A, Sub-basin 23, Basin A is the primary basin of Cottonwood

Creek, extending from Burgess Road at the northeast, to Monument

Creek at the western outfall. Sub-basin 23 was considered by the

Corps of Engineers as "Cottonwood Creek South", Basically, it is

indeed a direct tributary of Cottonwood Creek, and is so considered

in this study, Historically, however, this Sub-basin 23 has been

considered by the City as a portion of the Pulpit Rock Drainage

Basin, for reasons which are obscure, Basin B is an area in the

northwest portion of the total which is separate from, but closely

related to, the 6verall Cottonwood Creek drainage system,

Due to the stage of development,

areas within the basin were treated in different ways, The major

drainageways have been defined by previous development, This

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