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<br />THE FOUNTAIN RIVER FLOOD PROBLEM <br /> <br />Page 9 <br /> <br />Urban development of this type will inevitably intensify both <br />the need for, and the problems invo}Jed in, flood control and <br />river management in the period ahead, through: <br />a) Further encroachment of settlement and economic use of <br />the river plain. <br />b) Pre-emption of space required for large-scale dams and <br />similar works often constructed for flood protection and <br />stream control. <br />e) Intensifying competitio~ with agriculture for land and <br />water use, on the part of residential, recreational, and urban- <br />aesthetic needs. <br />d) Adaptations forced upon agriculture by changing market <br />and cost patterns and relationships. <br />e) Accelerated runoff from the streets, parking plazas, <br />and other impervious surfaces of urban and suburban areas (a <br />factor which has become serious in some metropolitan complexes. <br />See Reference 17). <br />f) Increasing draft on underground waters for domestic, <br />municipal, and industrial supply. <br />g) Increasing loads of waterborne wastes requlrlng disposal. <br />h) Higher general standards of urban environmental design <br />and maintenance associated with increasing affluence, denser <br />settlement, and technological advance. <br /> <br /> <br />In Vlew of this complex of trends and factors, it is highly <br />probable that the question of flood protection for Pueblo, <br />as for any other community within the Fountain basin, may <br />henceforth be most effectively studied and solved as an element <br />in a basin-wide program of river or waterflow management, <br />rather than as an isolated engineering problem. <br /> <br />Fortunately, groundwork for such an approach has beer. under <br />preparation for a considerable time. Beginning with the <br />original Federal Flood Control Act of 1930, and through its <br />subsequent amendments, the Department of Agriculture has <br />