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<br />SUMMARY OF FLOOD SIJUATION <br /> <br />The city of Pueblo, Colorado, is located at the <br /> <br /> <br />junction of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek (see Plate 1). <br /> <br />Fountain Creek flows south through the northeast sector of Pueblo. <br /> <br /> <br />This report covers the portion of Fountain Creek that is within <br /> <br />the planning jurisdiction of the Pueblo Regional Planning Commis- <br /> <br /> <br />sion. The study area encompasses Miles 0.00 to 21.48 as shown o~ <br /> <br />Plate 3. <br /> <br />The principal residential development of Pueblo is on <br /> <br /> <br />high ground adjoining the creek, but there are some residential <br /> <br /> <br />developments on lands adjacent to the stream in the study reach. <br /> <br /> <br />Furthermore, a great flood could inund~te practically all of the <br /> <br /> <br />downtown commercial and industrial areas. Portions of these <br /> <br /> <br />lands have been inundated by floods of the past, and even lar,ler <br /> <br /> <br />areas would be inundated by the potentially greater floods of the <br /> <br /> <br />future. <br /> <br />A stream gaging station was established in 1922 on <br /> <br />Fountain Creek in the vicinity of the 8th Street Bridge. This <br /> <br /> <br />station was discontinued in 1925. A recording gage station was <br /> <br />subsequently installed at the bridge in 1940. ThB station was <br /> <br /> <br />washed out during the 1965 flood. <br /> <br /> <br />Historical documents and newspaper files have been <br /> <br />searched for information concerning past floods. The local flood <br /> <br /> <br />situation on Fountain Creek has been developed from these inves- <br /> <br /> <br />tigations and studies of possible futu=e floods. The following <br /> <br /> <br />paragraphs summarize significant findings which are discussed in <br /> <br /> <br />more detail in succeeding sections of the report. <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />HISTORICAL FLOODS have been recorded on Fountain Creek in the <br /> <br /> <br />general Pueblo area in 1855, 1864, 1893, 1894, 1904, 1921, 1935, <br /> <br /> <br />and 1965. Reliable information of other damaging floods that <br /> <br /> <br />occurred prior to these dates has been lost in the obscurity of <br /> <br /> <br />time. The damaging floods experienced on Fountain Creek have <br /> <br />1 <br />