FLOOD05372

• County: Pueblo
• Community: Pueblo
• Stream Name: Arkansas River
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: City and County of Pueblo Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Date: 8/1/1994
• Prepared For: Pueblo
• Prepared By: Pueblo
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

It is important to note that Bessemer Diteh
also helped relieve the flooded streets of
runoff. The ditch acts as a diseharge point
for runoff earrying away storm water.

Commercial plumbers were also very busy
that weekend, An estimated 50 basements
were pumped by loeal professionals (e,g,
Roto Rooter and Cut Rate), Some
unconfirmed reports exist of people who
pumped their basements too fast and eaused
foundation damage, Please see appendix A

Rood Damage

By Saturday morning, Red Cross estimated
residential and property damage at about $1
million, During their response, they surveyed
nearly 160 homes and found about 6 were
very heavily damaged, 30 sustained major
damage, and approximately 120 reeeived
minor damage.

City, County and State roads, as well as
parks and trails, sustained heavy damage as
stated earlier in Flood Response, Since repair
proj ects are still underway, there are no net
eost estimates for damage as of yet, One
partieular1y interesting City Publie Works
Project is the Fountain Creek (1994) project.
The high river waters washed out 500 feet of
embankment, which is just one place where
it seems Fountain Creek is gradually altering
its path. Beginning on June 3, 1994, Publie
Works has (up to this time) put in 191
worker days to plaee over 3,600 tons of dirt,
over 3,200 tons of eonerete rip rap, and over
800 tons of select rip rap to move the stream
westward again in one area, and to stabilize
the bank and the sewer line that runs through
it (see pieture), This project should take a
few more weeks to complete.

Pueblo Flood HllZIlrd Miti"otion Pion

The Pueblo County School District reeeived
no damage, Pueblo City Sehool Distriet, on
the other hand, received heavy damage to
five schools, Columbian Elementary School's
basement, which contained the sehool's air-
conditioning and eomputer wiring systems,
was almost eompletely underwater.

Southern Pacifie Rail Road had some main
line damage, The Abriendo area north- and
south-bound lines were damaged, They lost
about 5% of their operating eapacity, They
estimated they sustained roughly a few
hundred thousand dollars of damage, Santa
Fe Rail Road did not make a report of
damage available, The Transportation Test
Center reported no damage.

Regional Building Authority reported one or
two homes with subsidenee around the
perimeter of the house from the flood and
two homes which needed the electricity
pulled and reworked, Some homes had
flooding past the eeilings of their basements
and even a foot or more deep on the first
floor.

The Fowdain Creek :Ooodwaters washed out laree sections of die
embankment and a sanitary sewer tnmk line. Photo courtesy or
John Dagenais. Oty Public Wolks.

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