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FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of Study The purpose of this Flood Insurance Study is to investigate the existence and severity of flood hazards in the City of Canon City. Fremont County, Colorado. and to aid in the administration of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Di saster Protection Act of 1973. Initial use of this information will be to c('nvert Canon City to the regular program of flood insurance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA 1. Further use of thi s information will be made by local and regional planners in their efforts to promote sound land use and flood plain development. In SOOle states or COl11llunities, flood plain management criteria 0r regulations may exist that are more restricitve or comprehensivE' than those in which these Federally-support.ed studies are based. These criteria take precedence over the minimum Federal criteria for pur- poses of regulating development in the flood plain, as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 24 CFR, 1910.I(d). In such cases, however, it shall be understood that the state (or other jurisdic- tional agency) shall be able to explain these requirements and cri- teria. 1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments The source of authority for t.his Flood National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as Disaster Protection Act of 1973. Insurance amended, Study is the and the Flood The hydrologic and hydrau1 ic analyses for thi s study were performed by Camp Dresser & McKee Inc. for t.he Federal Emergency Management Agency, under Contract No, H-6867. This study was completed in May 1981. 1.3 Coordination An initial coordination meeting was held on June 26, 1979, attended by city and county official s and representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB), acting as the State Coordination Agency and Camp Dresser & McKee Inc" the study contractor. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the nature of the study, the scope and limits of work, and flood information currently available concerning the cOlrmuni ty. A second coordination meeting was held on November 7, 1979, attended by the City Engineer, two members of the Soil Conservation Service and the study contractor. The city was informed by the study con- tractor of their intentions and they sol icited infonnation on new developments and existing flooding problems in the study area.