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<br />THE FOUNTAIN RIVER FLOOD PROBLEM <br /> <br />Page 3 <br /> <br /> <br />"'-'.-~-- ~ <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />~.. <br /> <br />rehabilitation of most. City streets and services were washed <br />out or clogged with debris, while a major link.of an interstate <br />freeway was biocked and se~y damaged. Several industrial <br />and governmental establishments along the river channel were <br />de?troyed or heavily damaged, and segments of main railroad <br />line were washed out. <br /> <br />Up~tream from Pueblo to Colorado Springs and beyond, thousan~s <br />of acres of irrigated farm lands with growing crops were flooded, <br />numerous headgates and ditches were destroyed or damaged, cattle <br />were drowned, and arable land was eroded away. In the Fountain <br />basin, portions of both Pueblo and El Paso Counties, several <br />thousand miles of county road and numerous bridges were damaged <br />and in several cases completely washed out. <br /> <br />Dollar estimates of the total damages within the basin at <br /> <br />this writirg, as released by the U. S. Army CD~pS of Engineers, <br /> <br />Bureau of Reclamation, County Agents, and other agencies, run <br /> <br />roughly: .,as follows: <br /> <br />El Paso County <br /> <br />Public. <br />Private <br />I <br />Pueblo County <br /> <br />Public (County roads, <br />bridges and equipment <br />Private <br /> <br />Irrigation works . <br />Fatm installations . <br />Crops and livestock. <br /> <br />City of Pueblo <br /> <br />Public (streets, sewers, <br />bridges, public property) . <br />Private (homes, businesses, <br />industries, railroad) . ., 2,646,000 <br /> <br />< TOTAL $10,303;000 <br /> <br />This estimate may be compared with. one published in 1939 by <br /> <br />the U. S. Department of Agriculture (Reference 3) for the <br /> <br />1935 Fountain flood damages, as follows: <br /> <br />$ 4,670,000 <br />1,927,000 <br /> <br />. . <br /> <br />250,000 <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />160,000 <br />150,000 <br />400,000 <br /> <br />, 100,000 <br />