FLOOD11727

• Designation Number: 221
• County: El Paso
• Community: Manitou Springs
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: FIS - Manitou Springs
• Date: 8/1/1983
• Designation Date: 1/5/1984
• Prepared For: Manitou Springs
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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year shallow flooding where depths
are less than l.O foot; and areas subject
to lOO-year flooding from sources with
drainage areas less than 1 square mile.
Zone B is not subdivided.

Zone C:

Areas of minimal flooding.

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The flood elevation differences, FHFs, flood insurance zones,
and base !flood elevations for each flooding source studied in
detail i~ the community are summarized in Table 3.

5.4 Flood Insurance Rate Map Description

The Flood Insurance Rate Map for Manitou Springs is, for insurance
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purposes; the principal result of the Flood Insurance Study.
This map I (published separately) contains the official delineation
of flood I insurance zones and base flood elevation lines. Base
flood elevation lines show the locations of the expected whole-
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foot water-surface elevations of the base (lOO-year) flood. This
map is developed in accordance with the latest flood insurance
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map prep~rat:ion guidelines published by the Federal Emergency
Manageme$t Agency.
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OTHER STUDIES

The U.S. Army forps of Engineers prepared a 1974 Flood Plain Information
report for Fountain Creek in Manitou springs (Reference 3). Discharges
and cross sectton data determined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
were used in t?e hydraulic analyses for Fountain Creek downstream of
the Road to th~ Cave of the Winds.
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A Flood Insura$ce Study has been prepared for the unincorporated areas
of El Paso Cou~ty (Reference 8). The detailed analysis for Fountain
Creek upstream'of the Road to the Cave of the Winds prepared for the
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El Paso County! Flood Insurance Study, was included in the Flood Insurance
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Study for Mani~ou Springs. Sutherland Creek and Ruxton Creek studied
by detailed methods within the City of Manitou Springs, were not studied
as part of thelFlood Insurance Study for the unincorporated areas of
El Paso County I due to the different scopes of study. In addition, the
approximate an~lysis of Williams Canyon and Beckers Lane Tributary within
the city was not studied as part of the El Paso County study due to
the different scopes of study. In all other areas, the two studies
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are in general: agreement.

A Flood Insurance Study
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Springs (Refer$nce 12).
with the results of the
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is being prepared for the adjacent City of Colorado
The results of this study will be in agreement
Colorado Springs study.

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