20-013 - FOUNTAIN CREEK CHANNEL STABILIZATION AT RIVERSIDE PROJECT

Flooding in September 2013 caused significant erosion along the Fountain Creek corridor, including the cliff located along 700 Crest Drive and Bandley Drive.  El Paso County Department of Public Works (County) proposes to stabilize Fountain Creek near the former Riverside Mobile Home Park in southern El Paso County, Colorado, herein referred to as the “Project” or the “Work”. The Project is approximately 12 miles south-east of downtown Colorado Springs. The work area is located in Christian Open Space, about 300 feet north of Crest Drive bordered by Bandley Drive to the west.
The Project will generally consist of:

• Restoring approximately 3000 feet of Fountain Creek,
• Constructing engineered log jams,
• Constructing toe wood bank protection,
• Constructing floodplain assemblages,
• Constructing low-gradient riffle structures,
• Constructing buried boulder channel bank protection,
• Installing bio-degradable fabric and soil-encapsulated lifts,
• Restoring the confluence of West Bank Tributary.