FLOOD11093 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Federal Emergency Management Agency Washington, D.C. 20472 CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED IN REPLY REFER TO: Case No.: 97-08-315P The Honorable Gary Lasater Mayor, Town of Parker 20120 East Main Street Parker, Colorado 80138 Community: Town of Parker, Colorado Community No. : 080310 Panel Affected: 0090 B Effective Date of MAY 1) 4 1998 This Revision: 102-I-A-C Dear Mayor Lasater: This responds to a request that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) {evise the effective Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) and Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community in accordance with Part 65 of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) regulations. In a letter dated April 21, 1997, Mr. William Sweeney, Public Works Director, Town of Parker, requested that FEMA revise the FIRM and FIS report to show the effects of placement of fill at the Villages at Parker Elementary School, construction of the Riva Ridge Street bridge, and more detailed topographic information along Sulphur Gulch from approximately 2,300 feet downstream to approximately 9,800 feet upstream of Riva Ridge Street. The revision was extended upstream into Douglas County approximately 1,200 feet upstream of County Road NO.9 to the limit of detailed study. Changes were also made to the Floodway Data Table to correct errors in a previous revision to the FIS report. This request follows up in part on a Conditional Letter of Map Revision issued on February 23, 1996, for an area from approximately 2,300 feet downstream to approximately 2,200 feet upstream of Riva Ridge Street. All data required to complete our review of this request were submitted with letters from. Mr. Fred H. Koch, P.E., Engineer, Douglas County; We have completed our review of the submitted data and the flood data shown on the effective FIRM and FIS report. We have revised the FIRM and FIS report to modifY the elevations and floodplain and floodway boundary delineations of the flood having a I-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year (base flood) along Sulphur Gulch. As a result of the modifications, the base flood elevations (BFEs) for Sulphur Gulch increased; the width of the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA), the area that would be inundated by the base flood, increased in some areas and decreased in other areas; and the width of the regulatory floodway increased in some areas and decreased in other areas. The modifications are shown on the enclosed annotated copy of FIRM Panel(s) 0090 B, Profile Panel(s) 13P through 17P, and affected portions of the Floodway Data Table. This Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) hereby revises the above-referenced panel(s) of the effective FIRM dated July 4, 1989 and the affected portions of the FIS report dated February 2, 1996.