FLOOD00059

• Designation Number: 278
• County: Clear Creek
• Community: Georgetown
• Stream Name: Clear Creek and South Clear Creek
• Title: Flood Hazard Identification Report - Clear Creek and South Clear Creek, Georgetown, Colorado
• Date: 2/1/1987
• Designation Date: 5/1/1987
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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RECOMMENDATIONS

The
used for a
include:

findings of the hydrologic and hydraulic investigations can be
number of floodplain management activities. These activities

Implementation of floodplain zoning.
Floodproofing structures.
Sizing stream crossings and bridges.
Preparation of a flood control feasibility analysis.
Public awareness of flood problems.
Flood Fight Operations.

By authority vested in Section 30-28-111 of the Colorado Revised
Statutes for county governments and Section 31-23-201 for municipal
governments , the cities, towns, and counties within the study area may
enact certain flood-related controls and regulations ...

" . . . to establish, regulate, restrict, and limit such uses on
or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin, as such
storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin has been designated and
approved by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, in order to
lessen or avoid the hazards to persons and damage to property
resulting from the accumulation of storm or floodwaters ..."

Therefore, upon official approval of this report by the Colorado
Water Conservation Board, the areas described as being innundated by the
100-year flood can be designated as, flood hazard areas and their use
regulated accordingly by the local agencies. It is recommended that such
regulation be enacted upon such designation.

Following acceptance of this study, the Town of Georgetown may
request to be converted from the Emergency Phase of the National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP) to the Regular Phase through the "special
conversion provision" of the program using results of this study. It is
recommended that the results of this study be incorporated into any new
Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM's) put out by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Federal Insurance Administration for this area.
Specifically, the "Flooded Area Maps" in this report could be used to
replace the flood hazard boundary as shown in the Federal Emergency
Management Agency's Flood Hazard Boundary Map of January 2, 1980. Upon
Georgetown's conversion to the regular phase of the National Flood
, Insurance Program, additional amounts of flood insurance coverage will be
available to dwellings within the lOO-year floodplain. Exhibit 4 gives
some information on National Flood Insurance Program coverage available.

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