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much as 13 inches of rain were reported, This was a large, general storm event that impacted a large area, Significant flood damage occurred along the Arkansas River, particularly in La Junta. Portions of La Junta and surrounding communities were inundated from partial failure of levies constructed by the COE. Additional damage resulted from back.up of sanitary sewers into residential neighborhoods and damage to roads, bridges and agricultural lands, 1\ was reported that flooding on the river was roughly a 20,to 30"year event Damage in the Colorado Springs area included overtopping of culverts, and loss of roadways due to erosion damage, Fountain Creek experienced peak flows estimated to be 26,000 cfs (roughly a la-year flow), which created damage from the City of Fountain nearly to Pueblo, Approach: Once the ICON Engineering team has been selected, but before we are under contract, we anticipate that a first, very significant task will be to sit down with the CWCB team to fully discuss the expected scope of services, and to preview documentation that has already been accumulated by the CWCB. Critical to completing the report will be making sure that full use of available material is made, and the CWCB is likely in the best position to evaluate, and inform the selected consultant, of the whereabouts, and validity of data, Once this initial "scoping" meeting has been conducted, we will write a definitive scope of services, along with a detailed fee estimate which will serve as the basis of the contract. We have a very successful record of quick turn-around time in producing the detailed scopes. For purposes of this submittal, it would be reasonable to aSSlillle that once notified of our selection, and once we conduct the scoping meeting, that we would be able to produce the final negotiated scope of services along with fees within a one week time frame" A detailed scope of services was furnishcd to the consultants as a part of the Request For Qualifications, (Draft Scope of Work dated May 20, 1999), The first defined task on Page 2 under Obiective is to meet with the CWCB staff to obtain existing flood documentation already available, We are suggesting that this meeting be held prior to finalizing the contract, so that a better understanding of the magnitude of available material can be achieved, We further suggest that the meeting include personnel from the USGS. Report Approach: As discussed above, we anticipate that the initial fact finding and data gathering will occur as a part of the scope of work negotiation, We assunle that one of the significant sources of data will include information developed by the USGS. Many of the counties to be studied were also damaged from the previously documented Hoods of 1997, Contacts developed as a part of that study are documented in the footnotes to the report and will be further contacted as a part of the 1999 work, As a part of our previous work, ICON Engineering had the opportunity to meet with Fred Sibley from the Colorado Office of Emergency Management Mr. Sibley's office will be the a major source of information, If at all possible, it would be advantageous to have a representative from the Office of Emergency Management attend the initial scoping meeting, Regardless of that, we anticipate that illl extended meeting with Mr. Sibley at his office will yield much data not available anywhere else, We will carefully log and document all data received from tbe CWCB and Mr. Sibley to implement a system of data management It will be very important that we know what we got 8