FLOOD01015

• County: Fremont
• Community: Florence
• Stream Name: Coal Creek, Arkansas River
• Title: Flood Preparedness Plan for the City of Florence Remont County, Colorado
• Date: 6/1/1993
• Prepared For: Florence, Fremont County, CWCB
• Prepared By: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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Florence Officials are responsible for developing and
implementing any exercise of the plan with assistance provided
from all involved agency Directors.

4. Plan Maintenance - To keep the plan current, it
should be reviewed periodically. Factual information (names,
titles, addresses, phone numbers, etc.) must be verified. Any
changes should be entered on replacement pages, dated and
identified, and distributed to all plan holders. Appendix J is
a list of offices and organizations that received a copy of
this plan. The list should be used when new revisions to this
plan are distributed. Agency Directors should take
responsibility for keeping the plan current with respect to
their agency, and also for informing alternates and other key
personnel of subsequent revisions.

5. Technical Aesistsnce - If any technical information
is required to maintain the desired degree of preparedness,
the following individuals/agencies may be contacted for
assistance:

Flood Plain Management Services
US Army Corps of Engineers
Albuquerque District
PO Box 1580
Albuquerque, NM 87103
505-766-2615

Service Hydrologist
National Weather Service
Denver, Colorado
303-361-0666

Office of Emergency Management Director
State of Colorado Office' of Emergency Services
Golden, Colorado
303-273-1622

Note: Through the Colorado State Office of Emergency Servicee,
the City of Florence may also request technical assistance
from other state agencies.

6. Public Education/Information - Public preparedness
for a flood emergency is accomplished by means of personal
contact by City and County offic;als. It should at minimum
include all residences and businesses located in the 100-year
floodplain of the Arkansas River. Door-to-door contact,
newspaper ads, and flyers mailed to the addresses of people
affected are effective public education/information tools.
Again, private individuals should be aware of what is expected
of them in the event of flooding.

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