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Colorado Water Conservation Board Department of Natural Resources 721 Centennial Building 1 313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: (303) 866-3441 FAX: (303) 866-4474 STATE OF COLOAADO . Bill Owens Governor Greg E. Walcher Executive Director, DNR February 11, 1999 Peter H. Evans Acting Director, CWCB Ms. Theresa DuVall, Clerk Town of Kiowa Box 237 Kiowa, CO 80117 Dear Terri: I am writing this letter concerning the Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM), revised February 27, 1976, for the Town of Kiowa. You may be aware that the FHBM is the official floodplain map for the town with regard to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). You are certainly aware that the Town of Kiowa does not currently participate in the NFIP. Nevertheless, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) believes that the FHBM may actually provide a crude representation of some of the flood hazards within the town. We believe that replacing that part of the FHBM pertaining to Kiowa Creek with the floodplain information contained in the report entitled Flood Plain Information, Kiowa Creek at Kiowa, Elbert County, Colorado, dated January 1976, prepared for Elbert County by United Western Engineers, would best represent the Kiowa Creek flood hazards in Kiowa. We recommend that we review the remaining information on the FHBM pertaining to other drainages, and then revise it as appropriate. We would like to examine both the FHBM and the United Western Engineers floodplain information with the Town of Kiowa staff and any interested elected officials. We would like to determine the appropriate boundaries for floodprone areas within your corporate limits, for Kiowa Creek and other drainages in the town. We would also like to assure that the Town of Kiowa is aware of the means available to it to guide proposed development activities in the vicinity of any flood ha7..ard areas, including the adoption of floodplain regulations and, possibly, participation in the NFIP. Colorado state law requires that the Colorado Water Conservation Board designate and approve all floodplain information that is used by local governments in Colorado for regulating land use in their jurisdiction. We propose to designate and approve the Kiowa FHBM at the March 29 - 30, 1999 meeting of our Board. We need a letter of request from the town, dated no later than February 26, 1999, requesting that our Board take formal action to review the map and possibly designate and approve it. To assist you with the preparation of a letter of request, I have included a sample letter to be used as a guide.