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<br /> <br />maps are required for all dams in higher risk <br />areas and ean be obtained from a loeal <br />emergency manager or the dam owner, <br /> <br />Early Rood Warning System <br /> <br />Pueblo uses a flood waming system on <br />Fountain Creek and its tributaries to help <br />monitor stream levels and ehanges, This kind <br />of waming system helps reduee the risk from <br />riverine flooding, Work toward an early <br />flood warning system started in 1986 and <br />was a positive step toward flood <br />preparedness, It is used and supported by <br />the City and COlDlty of Pueblo, El Paso <br />COlUlty, Colorado Springs and surrounding <br />communities such as Palmer Lake and <br />Fountain. The system is designed to eover <br />over 1,000 square miles of the FOlDltain <br />Creek basin and includes 44 sensor sites, <br />These sites may contain a eombination of <br />rain and stream gauges and other weather- <br />monitoring equipment (e.g, wind sensors), <br />Data from these sensor sites is relayed by <br />radio to the Pueblo County Emergeney <br />Operations Center, the National Weather <br />Serviee, El Paso County Offiee of <br />Emergency Management, the City of <br />Colorado Springs, and the Pikes Peak <br />Regional Building Department. Dan BlDlting, <br />Regional Floodplain Administrator, <br />maintains and operates the Early Flood <br />Warning System. The system continues to be <br />updated and additional sites to the system <br />are eurrently being explored. <br />Please see appendix C for map of the <br />Fountain Creek WaJershed <br /> <br />Pueblo Flood H tlZIlrd Milil!aJion Pion <br /> <br />Pueblo Flooding <br /> <br />Pueblo has a history of damaging floods. <br />Floods have been recorded in Pueblo in <br />1844, 1864, 1867, 1869, 1875, 1880, 1881, <br />1889, 1893, 1894, 1921, 1935, 1965 and <br />1994, Following the floods of 1893 and <br />1894, the people of Pueblo decided to build <br />a levee system to rechannel the Arkansas <br />River through the eity and reduee the risk of <br />flooding, Many years passed without <br />damaging floods, However, several regions <br />in Colorado in the summer of 1921 reeeived <br />extremely heavy flooding, including Pueblo, <br />General statewide rainfall, isolated severe <br />thunderstorms and areas of exeessive <br />snowmelt contributed to major flooding <br />affecting the North Platte, Yampa, White, <br />Roaring Fork, Uneompahgre, and Arkansas <br />River basins, These areas reeeived floods <br />with reeurrenee intervals between 25 and <br />100 years, <br /> <br />9 <br />