FLOOD08860

• Designation Number: 36
• County: El Paso
• Community: Colorado Springs
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Hazard Analysis - Update - Sand Creek & Tributaries
• Date: 12/1/1971
• Designation Date: 12/1/1974
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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GENERAL
The SaQIl Creek West Fork drainage basin Qorth of palll!er P~k Blvd
cOQ~aiQ8 approximately 16 square miles of land. That portiOQ of the
basin north of the existiQg CRI&!' RR is the subjec~ of this stQdy.
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Ai shown on the attached sketch, the bas1n is long and narrow. The
peak discharge from the upper basiQ will reach the proposed bridge
at Palll!er Park Blvd within 1.5 to 2 hours after the stom begillll.

The basin is open grassland with gentle rolling hilla. The averase

grallient over the reach of the creek is 2%. Soils are pr~~rily

alluvial lIilts and sands. Except for a few culvertll under r0a4s,

there are no existing drainage structures or storm sewers. A~ po,ell"

the area is used primarlly for grazlll8. There are nO surface4 rQll4.

ill the basin except for a short s~retch of Templeton Gap Road in the

upper J10rthwest COnlBr.

ASSUMPTIONS
In view of the largely undevelope4 COQdltion of the land in this
drainage basln, anll the pecessity of sizlng drainage facil:l~ies for
long range use, It has been necessary to make certain as.umptiopB
:rIgarlling future land \We. "

TIle lcey to f~~ure land use will be the transportatioQ network. Tile
1-25 Interstate bypass will pass north anq south just east of the Pa'ln
vUh seytlral ln~erchallges iQ ~\ul artlS. Powers Blvel.will be a four-I..
elCpresllWSY similar to Ac:....1Il)' Blvd. Tltis c:OlIlht.nat1on of interstete,
railroad, and airport will accelerate the growth. Kajar industrial
and cOllllll!rc:ial parks will spring up around the interc:hange..

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