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, r 0016GU . . - 3 - this event--~ith an estimated five known dead. This can only be attributed to the combined efforts of the public, State and Federal agencies, the good samaritans, our modern communic~tion systems and to no small measures of Good Providence. The Arkansas River Basin in Colorado Monday afternoon, June 14, thunderstorms started about 4:30 p.m. followed by hail, up to baseball size at 5:30 p.m, B,y early morning, Tuesday, June 15, an, estimated $500,000 damage had been done to El Paso County roads, highways, bridges and to homes in Stratmoor Hills, Stratmoor Meadows and Security Village south of Colorado Springs. Fountain, Colorado, downstream suffered very little damages from this storm which had rainfall estimated at 4 inches, Various showers and thunderstorms occurred in the Arkansas Watershed during the next few days. The tornado at Palmer Lake on the af~ernoon of June 16 did some damage in the upper Monument Creek area. The afternoon of Thursday, June 17, the Falcon storm of 12+ inches of rainfall with intensities of 7~ inches in 3 hours did damage from Falcon to Peyton, Colorado, and produced flooding on Black Squirrel, Jimmy Camp and Sand Creeks, tributaries of Fountain Creek and the Arkansas River and to the east, Big Sandy Creek, tributary to the Arkansas River at Lamar, Colorado, The flood proceeded down the Arkansas picking up the flood crests out of Black Squirrel, Horse Creeks from the north and Crooked Arroyos and Muddy Creeks on the south. B,y the time the floods on the Fountain had joined the Arkansas River at Pueblo and proceeded to the Pueblo County line, extensive damages had occurred and an estimated peak of 186,000 c,f,s, was attained. A flood crest from the Purgatoire River joined the Arkansas flood. All of these floods were contained in the John Martin reservoir. A total estimated 280,000 acre-feet of inflow ~as stored in the John Martin Reservoir. The lower Arkansas River flood started with the 8+ inches flood on the upper Big Sandy Creek. This wss held to minimum damages ty three of the upper four structures on the Big Sandy project. The estimated maximum releases from Ramah and the upper dams of the Watershed totaling 8,~00 c.f,s. ~as contained ~ithin the channel of Big Sandy Creek with no damage done to Limon, Colorado, It is estimated that total damages to the three structures are $5,000. The sponsors, local people and communities estimated that at least $500,000 of damage ~ould have been done to the Big Sandy project areas had this portion of the project not been installed. The Big Sandy contributed some flows to the flooding on the Lower Arkansas River below John Martin Dam.