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<br />THE FOUNTAIN RIVER FLOOD PROBLEM <br /> <br />Page 1,2 <br /> <br />As with proposals for extensive control and protection works, <br />no program of this scope and nature has materialized for the <br />Fountain basin. However, soil conservation districts cover- <br />ing about 38 per cent of the watershed, two administered frpm <br />Colorado Springs and one from Pueblo, were organized in the <br />1930's and have been carrying on regularly authorized <br />land treatment programs since, to the extent of their co- <br />operators' abilities and desires (See accompanying map "Land <br />and Water Resources Agencies."l. The level of these activities, <br />however, is far below that determined as necessary for <br />effective runoff management in the several water detention <br />and conservation studies. Additionally, the Forest Service <br />has consistently applied normal conservation management practices <br />to the 188 square miles of the Pike National Forest contained <br />in the basin, while the Air Force Academy has adopted a similar <br />program for its lands under a supervising agronomist (See <br />accompanying map "Lands in Government Ownership"). These areas,.' <br />, ':\ <br />however, do not lie in portions of the watershed productive of .; <br />massive flood flows affecting the entire lower basin. <br /> <br />Statistical and technical information resulting from these <br />studies, and from the line-of-duty operations of other agencies, <br />remains valuable in visualizing the over-all hydrologic regimen <br />of the basin, and the dimensions of the factors and problems <br />involved in basin management. Three of the accompanying carto~ <br />grams - "General Precipitation Characteristics," "General ~un~ <br />off and Water Use Characteristics,~ and "General Flooding and <br />Flood Flow Characteristics" present a thumbnail summary and <br />highlighting of the more basic data from these sources, <br />descriptive of such measurable physical and hydraulic phenomena <br />as the pattern of precipitation and storm occurrence, and the <br />behaviour of watersheds, streamflows, and subflows. <br /> <br />Other abstractions of data, generally of an economic or <br />agronomic nature - such as soil-type, land-use and vegeta- <br />tive cover surveys, and inventories of agricultural production, <br /> <br />