FLOOD00608

• Designation Number: 516
• County: Denver
• Community: Denver
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Denver, CO, Volume I
• Date: 3/1/1996
• Designation Date: 5/1/2000
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

construction of the Bear Creek Dam located just downstream of the Town
of Morrison in Jefferson County, Hydrologic and hydraulic analyses of
Bear Creek for the Denver Flood Insurance Study consider the
construction of the dam and are more representative of present-day
flooding conditions.

A revised Flood Insurance Rate Map has been published for the City of
Lakewood (Reference 91). That Flood Insurance Rate Map is in agreement
with this study with the following exceptions:

(1) Flooding from Lakewood Gulch in Lakewood does not agree wi th
the detailed analyses of Lakewood Gulch within Denver.
Lakewood Gulch flooding determined for this study is a more
recent analysis and, therefore, supersedes the Lakewood Flood
Insurance Rate Map,

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(2) Floodplain boundaries for 500-year flooding were not
determined for Weir Gulch, Dakota Avenue Tributary, First
Avenue Tributary, Dry Gulch (Lakewood Gulch Tributary), and
Sanderson Gulch within Lakewood due to the limited scope of
study.

(3) Dakota Avenue Tributary flooding has been identified as
shallow flooding downstream of Sheridan Boulevard (State
Highway 95) in this study.

(4) On Weir Gulch and First Avenue Tributary, lOO-year elevations
and floodplain boundaries are in disagreement with those
determined for this study. This study is a more recent
analysis and, therefore, supersedes the Lakewood Flood
Insurance Rate Map,

(5) Bear Creek is presented as an approximate study within
Lakewood and as a detailed study within Denver.

A Flood Insurance Study and Flood 'Insurance Rate Map have been published
for the City of Littleton (Reference 92). Flood Insurance Rate Maps
have been published for the City of Greenwood Village and for Arapahoe
County (References 93, 94, and 97). A Flood Hazard Boundary Map has
been prepared for the City of Edgewater (Reference 95), These adjacent
studies are in general agreement with this study.

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A Flood Hazard Boundary Map has been published for the unincorporated
areas of Jefferson County (Reference 96). Flooding determined for this
study represents more recent analysis and, therefore supersedes the
Jefferson County Flood Hazard Boundary Map.

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8.0 LOCATION OF DATA

Information concerning the pertinent data used in the preparation of
this study can be obtained by contacting FEMA, Mitigation Division,
Denver Federal Center, Building 710, Box 25267, Denver, Colorado 80225-
0267.

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