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network is presently in effect in portions of the Arkansas River Basin but is extremely limited in the Fountain Creek portion. The Stream and Its Valley Fountain Creek is a north-bank tributary of the Arkansas River. The watershed, approximately 65 miles long as measured from Palmer Lake to the Arkansas River confluence at Pueblo and a maximum of 25 miles wide in the vicinity of Colorado Springs, constitutes a drainage area of 927 square miles in several counties. Within this pear-shaped watershed, the creek originates about seven miles northwest of Pikes Peak in the mountains of the Rampart Range extending along the Arkansas and South Platte Divide. Elevations in the watershed vary from 14,109 feet at Pikes Peak to 4,627 feet at the mouth. Fountain Creek headwaters are fed from glacial snow- packs and springs of the alp ins west slope canyons of Pikes Peak. Glacial ~eposits remain in many of the valleys above 9,500 foot elevation. In other areas, the espen, spruce, and pine covered narrow canyons are straight, steepwalled, and well drained. The bedrock creek channel, strewn with boulders, averages 50 feet in width above the foothills. The foothills are a narrow transition from the mountains of the Rampart Range to the high plains. This transitional area varies from rough parallel ridges to narrow gently sloping mesas with pine, pinon, cedar, and oak cover. Fountain Creek emerges on the high plains at Colorado Springs, entering a drainage area of 120 square miles at the Monument Creek junction in Colorado Springs. Monument Creek, a tributary of Fountain Creek, origi- nates in the Rampart Range about 8 miles west of Monument, Colorado. This creek has a drainage area of 239 square miles at the Fountain Creek junction. The stream flows northeast from the headwaters to the Palmer Lake vicinity where it turns south. The natural channel is bedrock with sporadic boulders and an average width of 11