FLOOD10702

• County: Lincoln
• Community: Limon
• Title: FIS - Limon
• Date: 5/1/1984
• Prepared For: Limon
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Current FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1_1 Purpose of Study

This Flood Insurance Study investigates the existence and severity
of flood hazards in the Town of Limon, Lincoln County, Colorado,
and aids in the administration of the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. This
study will be used to convert the Town of Limon to the regular
program of flood insurance by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA). Local and regional planners will use this study
in their efforts to promote sound flood plain management.

This Flood Insurance Study was prepared by compiling existing
hydrologic and hydraulic technical and scientific data prepared
by other organization(s) originally for pur.poses other than the
National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The data were identified
as the best available at the time of compilation of this Flood
Insurance Study and should depict the general conditions of the
flooding sources with relative accuracy. FEMA performed a cursory
review and accepted the data as valid for purposes of this Flood
Insurance Study and the NFIP. However, if better information
is known to exist or has been developed since the date of this
report, the information should be immediately forwarded to the
Natural and Technological Hazards Division, FEMA, Building 710,
Denver Federal Cener, Lakewood, Colorado, for consideration for
revision of this study.'

In some States or communities, flood plain management criteria
or regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive
than those on which this federally supported study is based.
These criteria take precedence over the minimum Federa~ criteria
for purposes of regulating development in the flood plain, as
set forth in th~,Code of Federal Regulations at 44 CFR, 60.3(c).
In such cas~s, however, it shall be understood that the State
(or other jurisdictional agency) shall be able to explain these
requirements and c(iteria.

1.2" Authority and Acknowledgments

The sources of authority for this Flood Insurance Study are the
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protec-
tion Act of 1973.

The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for this study were performed
by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, as reported in Flood Plain
Management Study, Town of Limon, Colorado (Reference 1).