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• Designation Number: 577
• County: Conejos
• Community: Manassa
• Stream Name: Conejos River
• Title: Floodplain Information Report - Manassa Colorado
• Date: 8/1/2004
• Prepared For: Manassa and CWCB
• Prepared By: Love and Associates
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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PREFACE

The Floodplain Information Report (FIR) is part of a program by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board (CWCB) to aid communities in Colorado in the use of the regulatory
floodplain maps prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in
the community. This Floodplain Information Report provides updated information of
floodplain delineations on existing FEMA maps. In addition, it provides floodpla,n
management information to guide the local governments in the use of the maps.

The regulated floodplain for the Town of Manassa is described and mapped on the Flood
Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), dated February, 1986. The floodplain was identified using
the best information available and was meant to represent floodplain conditions as they
existed at the time of the study.

The Flood Information Report for the Town of Manassa summarizes updated floodplain
mapping and supporting information to replace floodplain delineations on the 1986
FIRM. It includes a description of available hydrologic information for major flooding
sources adjacent to the Town and, for CWCB designation purposes, supersedes the
FIRM. In addition, this document provides basic information about floodplain
management and possible alternatives to formulate and implement floodplain
management objectives.

The floodplain information in this document meets the basic technical requirements for
designation and approval by the CWCR Colorado statutes require local governments
obtain from the CWCB the designation and approval of floodplain information for their
use in regulatory purposes. This document provides a means for the FIRM to meet that
statutory objective. As new and more detailed floodplain information becomes available,
floodplain areas shown in this report may change. The CWCB will designate and
approve new information, and rescind old information as appropriate.

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