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<br />drainage area is less than I square mile, and areas protected from <br />the IOO-year flood by levees. No base flood elevations or depths <br />are shown within this zone. <br /> <br />Zone D <br /> <br />Zone D is the flood insurance rate zone that corresponds to unstudied <br />areas where flood hazards are undetermined, but possible. <br /> <br />6. 0 FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP <br /> <br />The Flood Insurance Rate Map is designed for flood insurance and flood <br />plain management applications. <br /> <br />For flood insurance applications, the map designates flood insurance <br />rate zones as described in Section 5.0 and, in the IOO-year flood plains <br />that were studied by detailed methods, shows selected whole-foot base <br />flood elevations or average depths. Insurance agents use the zones and <br />base flood elevations in conjunction with information on structures and <br />their contents to assign premium rates for flood insurance policies. <br /> <br />For flood plain management applications, the map shows by tints, screens, <br />and symbols, the 100- and sOO-year flood plains, the floodways, and the <br />locations of selected cross sections used in the hydraulic analyses and <br />floodway computations. <br /> <br />7.0 OTHER STUDIES <br /> <br />This Flood Insurance Study supersedes the previously published Flood <br />Hazard Boundary Map for Chaffee County (Reference 10). <br /> <br />Flood Insurance Studies have been prepared for the City of Salida, the <br />Towns of Buena Vista and poneha Springs, and the unincorporated areas of <br />Pitkin County (References 3, 6, 11, and 12, respectively). These studies <br />are in general agreement with this Flood Insurance study. <br /> <br />Flood Hazard Boundary Maps have been published for Fremont, Gunnison, <br />and Park Counties (References 13, 14, and 15, respectively) and are in <br />general agreement with this study. <br /> <br />8.0 LOCATION OF DATA <br /> <br />Information concerning the pertinent data used in the preparation of <br />this study can be obtained by contacting the Natural and Technological <br />Hazards Division, PENA, Denver Federal Center, Building 710, Box 25267, <br />Denver, Colorado 80225-0267. <br /> <br />11 <br />