WSP02500

• File Number: 8102
• Description: Arkansas River Basin Basic Hydrology
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1989
• Author: G Kuhn R F Ortiz
• Title: Selected Hydrological Data for Fountain Creek and Monument Creek Basins - East-Central Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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Acknowledgments

Appreciation is extended to the many landowners who allowed access to
sampling sites on Fountain Creek, Monument Creek, ~nd tributary streams,
Access to sampling sites allowed by the City of Colorado Springs at the Colo-
rado Springs Wastewater Treatment Facility, at Pinello Ranch, and at Hanna
Ranch, as well as access allowed by the towns of Monument, Woodland Park,
Security, Widefield, and Fountain at their wastewater-treatment facilities
also is acknowledged. Appreciation also is extended to the U,S. Air Force
Academy for allowing access to sampling sites located on that installation.
Special thanks is extended to Kelly Stone, Mary Veatch, and other personnel at
the Colorado Springs Wastewater Treatment Facility Laboratory for doing the
5-day carbonaceous biochemical analyses for the hundreds of water samples
obtained for the study and for allowing use of the laboratory as a central
collection and processing point for the samples, Finally, the assistance of
Frank Kipple and Craig Lis, Colorado Division of Water Resources, is acknow-
ledged for data collection.

HYDROLOGIC DATA SITES

Hydrologic data sites established for this study are listed in table 1,
The sites are listed in a downstream order beginning with sites on Monument
Creek and followed by sites on Fountain Creek, The site numbers (table 1) are
reported in river miles upstream from the mouth of either creek preceded by one
or two letters that designate whether the site is on Fountain Creek (F), on a
tributary to Fountain Creek (FT), on Monument Creek (M), or on a tributary to
Monument Creek (MT). Because of access limitations, some tributary streams
were not sampled at the mouth even though the site number represents the river
mile at the mouth of that tributary, However, the U,S. Geological Survey
IS-digit station number (table 1), which is the latitude and longitude of the
site, represents the actual sampling location. Locations of the hydrologic
data sites are shown in figure 2, Hydrologic data are available for 129 sites;
an additional 10 sites (table 1) were dye- or gas-injection sites only,

DESCRIPTION OF HYDROLOGIC DATA

The hydrologic data, which consist of onsite and laboratory water-quality
analyses, and discharge, channel-geometry, traveltime, and reaeration meas-
urements, are listed in tables 2 through 8 in the "Hydrologic Data" section
of this report. The data are listed in downstream order and are keyed to
the hydrologic data site numbers listed in table 1 and shown in figure 2,

Water-quality data (table 2) are from four 24-hour sampling periods;
two sets of analyses, July 1986 and July 1987, are for the warm-water stream
reach, and two sets of analyses, December 1986 and February 1987, are for the
cold-water stream reach, The data for each sampling period are grouped together
for each site (table 2), Discharge and channel-geometry data obtained during
the 24-hour sampling periods are listed in tables 3 and 4; no channel-geometry
data were obtained during the July 1986 sampling period,

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