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927 square miles. Elevations in the watershed vary from 4,627 feet at the mouth to 14,109 feet at Pike I s Peak. Fountain Creek is perennial except for a few days during the sununer when irrigation and municipal demands equal or exceed the low sununer flows. Some irrigation-return flows are experienced in the plains sector of the creek (Reference 3). Salt Creek is one of several floodprone tributaries which flow into the Arkansas River between Canon City and the City of Pueblo. The Salt Creek ,Basin is adjacent to the Goodnight Arroyo Basin to the northwest and St. Charles River Basin to the southeast. The Salt Creek watershed encompasses 37.2 square miles. The headwaters originate in the foothills approximately 8 miles south and 10 miles west of the city. The Salt Creek Basin is minor in regard to size but is important to the City of Pueblo in that it flows through the residential and major industrial areas of southeast Pueblo. At its confluence with the St. Charles River Flood Ditch, a maximum flow of approximately 635 cubic feet per second (cts) is diverted into Salt Creek from the St. Charles River. This flow is for irrigation purposes and provides a base flow in Salt Creek during the spring and summer months. Three miles downstream from the flood di tch, the creek flows into the first of two major reservoirs along its course. The upstream reservoir is called St. Charles Reservoir No.2. Only Reservoir No. 3 is effective in substantially reducing floodflows from the creek (Reference 3). The Sixmile Creek Basin is adjacent to the St. Charles River Basin to the west and the Huerfano River Basin to the east. The watershed encompasses 53.3 square miles with the headwaters originating in the low hills about 15 miles south and 3 miles east of the City of Pueblo. The entire stream is approximately 24.9 miles long. The reach of the stream above the Bessemer Ditch crossing may be considered to be intermittent. The terrain in the study reach of Colorado, being flat to vegetated (Reference 4). is typical of the southeastern plains rolling, semi-arid, and sparsely The Wild Horse-Dry Creek watershed, approximately 17 miles long and averaging 5 miles wide, has a drainage area of 82.8 square miles. Within the roughly rectangular watershed, elevations vary from 6,000 feet near the headwaters to 4,700 feet at the mouth. wild Horse-Dry Creek begins Creek and Dry Creek. These the frontal range northwest southeasterly direction to as two separate streams, wild Horse streams orlglnate in the foothills of of the City of Pueblo and flow in a join near the Wild Horse subdivision 5