Disasters of the Pikes Peak Region by Dennis Daily

Author:Dennis Daily
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District
Published: 2017-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

July 30, 1932, Flood

A typical local cloudburst formed over the Black Forest and Templeton Gap basin on July 30, 1932, dumping considerable rainfall. Although there is no recorded rainfall data for those areas at that time, the amount was sufficient to cause a flash flood in Papeton and northern Colorado Springs. According to the data, this flood caused the most damage, $144,800, of any on this watershed. Like earlier floods, it caused damage down the entire Shooks Run watershed and spilled out over northern Colorado Springs as some waters headed for Monument Creek. Although there was no loss of life, Nicholas Venetucci’s two houses, located on North Hancock Avenue, near the intersection of Fillmore Street in present-day Colorado Springs, were moved from their foundations due to the deluge in Papeton. Damage to his orchard and garden, on another piece of land separated from the homestead, also occurred. Venetucci sued Colorado Springs claiming that the city’s construction of a diversion dam at Templeton Gap in 1927 increased the flooding at his premises. In the end, Venetucci lost the lawsuit, the court being persuaded by the city’s position that the flood damage was caused by a historically large rain event. He appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court, which commented on the magnitude of this flood:

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