FLOOD02819

• Designation Number: 193
• County: Rio Grande
• Community: Del Norte
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado
• Date: 3/1/1982
• Designation Date: 8/1/1982
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

FLOOO INSURANCE STUOY
TOWN OF OEL NORTE, COLORAOO

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Purpose of Study

The purpose of this Flood Insurance Study is to investigate the
existence and severity of flood hazards in the Town of Del Norte,
Rio Grande County, 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 Del Norte to the regul ar program of flood insurance by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency. Further use of the
information will be made by local and regional planners in their
efforts to promote sound land use and flood plain development.

In some states or communities, flood plain management criteria or
regulations may exist that are more restricitve or comprehensive
than those in which these Federally-supported studies are based.
These cri teri a take precedence over the mi nimum Federal criteri a
for purposes of regulating development in the flood plain, as set
forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 24 CF~, 1910.l(d). In
such cases, however, it shall be understood that the state (or
other jurisdictional agency) shall be able to expl ain these
requirements and criteria.

1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments

The source of authority for thi s Fl ood Insurance Study is the
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, and the Flood
Disaster Protection Act of 1973.

The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for this study were performed
by Camp Dresser & McKee Inc. for the Federal Insurance Administra-
tion, under Contract No. EMW-C-0046. This study was completed in
August of 1980.

1.3 Coordination

An initial coordination meeting was held on June 25, 1979, attended
by the town and county official s and representatives of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Colorado Water Conservation
Board (CWCB), acting as the State Coordination Agency, and Camp
Dresser & McKee Inc., the study contractor. The purpose of thi s
meeting was to di scuss the nature of the study, the scope and
limits of work, and flood information currently available
concerning the community.