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<br />FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY <br /> <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />1.1 Purpose of Study <br /> <br />This Flood Insurance Study report has been prepared to revise and <br />update a previous Flood Insurance Rate Map for the City of Pueblo, <br />Pueblo County, Colorado, which was published on April 2, 1976. <br />This information will be used by the City of Pueblo to update exist- <br />ing flood plain regulations as part of the regular plogram of flood <br />insurance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The <br />information will also be used by local and regional planners to <br />further promote sound land use and flood plain development. <br /> <br />In some states or communities, flood plain management criteria or <br />regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive <br />than the minimum Federal requirements. In such cases, the more <br />restrictive criteria take precedence and the State (or other juris- <br />dictional agency) will be able to explain them. <br /> <br />1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments <br /> <br />The sources of authority for this Flood Insurance Study are the <br />National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protec- <br />tion Act of 1973. <br /> <br />The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for this study were performed <br />by MSM/SP Group, for FEMA, under Contract No. H-4710. This work, <br />which was completed in October 1981, covered all significant flooding <br />sources affecting the City of Pueblo, with the exception of the <br />hydraulic analysis for the approximate study reach of the Arkansas <br />River (upstream of the detailed study), the hydraulic analyses for <br />Fountain Creek and the east bank overflow from downstream of the <br />Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to downstream of U.S. Highway 50, <br />and the hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for the detailed study <br />of University Park Tributary, performed by Dames & Moore, under <br />Contract No. C-0542. <br /> <br />1.3 Coordination <br /> <br />Areas to be studied were identified at a meeting held on August 5, <br />1980, attended by representatives of the study contractor, FEMA, <br />the City of Pueblo, and Pueblo County. The study contractor was <br />to revise and. update a preliminary Flood Insurance Study prepared <br />for the Federal Insurance Administration in 1977 by the U.S. Army <br />Corps of Engineers (COE) (Reference 1). <br />