FLOOD00945

• County: Teller
• Community: Cripple Creek
• Stream Name: Pony Gulch, Poverty Gulch
• Title: Floodplain Management Study
• Date: 12/1/1992
• Prepared For: Cripple Creek
• Prepared By: USDA Soil Conservation Service
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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INTRODUCTION

section 30-28-111 C.R.S. for county governments and section 1-2)-)01
C.R.S. for municipal governments of the Colorado Revised Statutes,
state the cities, incorporated towns, and counties within the study
area may provide zoning regulations "...to establish, regulate,
restrict, and limit such uses on or along any storm or floodwater
runoff channel or basin that 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..."

This flood plain management report was prepared by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Soil Conservation service, in cooperation with the
Colorado water Conservation, Teller County, and the City of Cripple
Creek, Colorado. Interpretations of the flood plain management study
and recommendations to reduce damages are included; however it is
beyond the scope of this report to provide detailed proposals or plans
to rectify the flooding problems.

Therefore, upon official approval of this report by the Colorado water
Conservation Board, the areas described as being inundated by the 100-
year flood can be designated as flood hazard areas and their use
regulated accordingly by the local governments.
Flood plain management studies are carried out by the Soil
Conservation Service as an outgrowth of the recommendations in A
Report bv the Task Force on Federal Flood Control Policy. House
Document No. 465 (89th Congress, August 10, 1966), especially
Recommendation 9{cj, Requlation of Land Use. which recommended the
preparation of preliminary reports tor guidance in those areas where
assistance is needed before a full flood plain information report can
be prepared or where a full report is not scheduled.
Authority for funding flood plain management studies LS provided by
Section 6 of Public Law 83-566, which authorizes the U.S. Department
of Agriculture to cooperate with other federal, state and local
agencies to make investigations and surveys of the watersheds and
rivers and other waterways as a basis for the development of
coordinated programs. In carrying out flood plain management studies,
the Soil Conservation service is being responsive to Executive Order
119&&, entitled "Flood Plain Management", and Executive Order 11990,
entitled "Prot<i.ction of Wetlands" (both effective May 24, 1977).

Obiectives

The objective of this study is to provide detailed flood plain
~anagement information and mapping to Teller County and the city of
Cripple Creek for use in implementing flood plain management progra~s
Which will minimize potential flood losses. InclUded in the report
are engineering and hydrologic data which will facilitate the
development of a flood plain management plan, road and bridge designs.
and flood control measures (if needed).

Authoritv
Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, authorizes the
Colorado water Conservation Board "to designate and approve storm or
floodwater runoff channels or basins, and to make such designations
available to legislative bodies of cities and incorporated towns, to
county planning commissions, and to boards of adjustment of cities,
incorporated towns, and counties of this state". The board provides
assistance to local governments in development and adoption of
effective floodplain ordinances. In addition, the board will provide
teChnical assistance to local entities during the performance of
floodplain information studies within Colorado. Presently, direct
financial assistance for the performance of floodplain studies is no
longer available from the board.