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CITY OF ASPgN FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY .J INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of Study The purpose of this Flood Insurance Study is to investigate the existence and sevEHity of flood hazards in thE! City of Aspen, Colorado, and to aid in the administration of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. Initial use of this information will be to convert Aspen to the regula!: progJ:'am of flood insurance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. :I?urther use of the information will be made by local and regional planners in their efforts to promote sound land use and floodplain development. 1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments The source of authority for this 1"lood Insurance Study is the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for this study were performed by Denver Engineering Corporation, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Contract No. EMW-C-1184. This work, which was completed in May 1984, cover.ed all significant flooding sources affecting the City of Aspen. 1.3 Coordination Community base map selection and the! identification of streams requiring detailed study were done in a meeting attended by representatives from the study contractor, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Colorado WatE!r ConsE,rvation Board and the City of Aspen on April 20, 1983. During the course of wo:rk done by the study contractor, flood information was cooz:dinat:<=d \dth th,e Colorado Water Conservation Board, Sacramento District Corps of Engineers and Ci ty of Aspen. The results of this study were reviewed at a final community cooz:dination meeting held on . Attend ing the meeting were representatives-'c)'r--tl1el'edeJ:al Emergency Management Agency, the study contractor, the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the City. -1-