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<br />Pueblo and Its Vulnerability <br /> <br />The Pueblo Community <br /> <br />Pueblo, situated at the confluence of the <br />Arkansas River and Fountain Creek is the <br />, <br />county seat of Pueblo County _ Pueblo <br />County was one of the original seventeen <br />counties included in the Colorado Territory <br />created in 1861. In the 1840s Fort Pueblo <br />was built by fur traders and the name <br />remained even though the settlers did not <br />The Fort was abandoned following the <br />Indian Massacre in 1854. The settlers <br />returned, however, with the advent of the <br />gold rush in 1858_ By 1880 the Denver & <br />Rio Grande Railroad had found its way to <br />Pueblo, and the Colorado Coal and Iron <br />Company (now the Colorado Fuel and Iron <br />Steel Corporation, or CF & 1) was producing <br />steel profitably_ By 1900 Pueblo's population <br />reached nearly 35,000, more than half of <br />whom were the families of immigrants who <br />had come to earn their living in the steel <br />mill. The city has continued to grow to its <br />current population of over 98,000. <br /> <br />The incredible growth in Pueblo has <br />increased its potential vulnerability to <br />flooding in areas of the city _ The Arkansas <br />River flows through Pueblo and receives <br />flow from many tributaries in the Pueblo <br />area_ The city and county have taken, and <br />continue to take, many steps to ensure the <br />safety of Pueblo from damaging floods_ <br />These structural (e.g. levees, dam) and non- <br />structural (e.g. zoning) mitigative steps to <br />lessen vulnerability often resulted from <br />planning after a devastating flood_ Pueblo <br />has a history of darnaging floods and has <br />learned and planned from each of them. <br /> <br />Pueblo Flood H aZllrd M;t;"at;on Pion <br /> <br /> <br />The Arkansas River and a city section of muddy river <br />trail. <br /> <br />Streams in the Pueblo Area <br /> <br />The streams discussed here are major <br />drainages in Pueblo County which flow in or <br />near the city and/or were affected by the <br />June 3, 1994 storm_ These waterways consist <br />of the Arkansas River and its tributaries: <br />Fountain Creek, St Charles River, Wild <br />Horse-Dry Creek, Dry Creek, Goodnight <br />Arroyo, Huerfano River and Salt Creek The <br />following stream information is taken from <br />U.S_ Army Corps of Engineers Flood Plain <br />Information studies_ These tributaries lack <br />records from stream gauges on the channels, <br />therefore, the flood history information must <br />be compiled and analyzed from historic <br />records. <br /> <br />3 <br />