FLOOD03393

• Designation Number: 161
• County: Eagle
• Community: Eagle
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Eagle, Colorado
• Date: 9/1/1979
• Designation Date: 3/1/1980
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

2.0 AREA STUDIED

2.1 Scope of Study

'.:'hi5 Flood Insurance Stl.:.dy ::::::overs
of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado.
Vicinity ~~~ (Figure 1).

the i:Icorporated area of t~e Towr.
The area of study is shown on the

Floods caused by overflow of Brush Creek were studied in detail,
while app:....oximate studies were made of the Eagle River and Eby
Creek through the corporate limits of Eagle. Eagle River and Eby
Creek were studied by approximate methods due to lack of development
in their flood plains.

Those areas studied by detailed methods were chosen with consider-
ation given to all pro?osed construction and forecasted development
through 1983.

2.2 Com~unity Description

The Town of Eagle, the county seat, is located in western
Eagle County, in central Colorado. Located on the Eagle River
at the mouth of Brush Creek, the town lies 7 miles east of the
Town of Gypsum and 10 miles west of the Town of Wolcott, and
occupies an area of avproxirnately 380 acres.

The current population for the Town of Eagle is estimated to be 1100
(Reference 1) wit~ only a min8r increase in pop~lation occuring
du:::::ing the ',,,in::.er sea.son. Most of the tOV,7n IS conunerce is
centered a.round the county government a.:1d the surrounding
farmlands, with timber manufacturing as the main occupation for
the residents (Reference 1).

The average annual temperature in Eagle is approximately 420FT and
the annual precipitation averages apvroximate1y 11.0 inches (Refer-
ence 2) .

Brush Creek flows north to northwest from the mountains of the
northern Sawatch Range into the Eagle River near the western end of
Eagle. At Eagle, it has a steep, shallow channel with a slope of
approximately 90 feet per mile. Its width is approximately 30 feet,
and its deptil is approximately 1 to 2 feet. Its streambed is steep
and narrow downstream of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad,
with a width of approximately 70 feet, while in the upper reaches,
it ranges in width from 200 to 400 feet. The flood plain is generally
covered with natural grasses, with a few scattered willow bushes
along the banks and cottonwood trees elsewhere. A trailer park and
several other dwellings are in the flood plain in the upper region
of the study.

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