FLOOD03452

• County: San Miguel
• Community: Telluride and Sawpit
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Title: Hydrology Addendum San Miguel County And Incorporated Areas
• Date: 11/1/2000
• Prepared For: County of San Miguel
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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. intense localized thunderstorms preceded by wet weather, The 1914 flood caused significant
. damage and killed one person,
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. Previous Studies
, . The original Flood Insurance Study for San Miguel County was conducted in 1978, A county-
. wide study was first conducted in 1988, and then updated to the current study. The Town of
. Telluride PIS was also originally conducted in 1978, and then was incorporated into the 1988
. county-wide PIS, The Norwood Flood Hazard Boundary Maps (FHBMs) which contain the
. SFHAs were developed in 1974.
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. A summary of information available regarding floodplains in the county available from the
. CWCB is shown in the Appendix,
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. Communitv Response to the CWCB Desil!nation and Approval Process
. A letter from the CWCB was transmitted to San Miguel County, the Town of Telluride and the
. Town of Sawpit regarding the Board's proposed action for designation and approval of the San
. Miguel County PIS, The county and Town of Telluride were receptive to the Board's proposed
. designation action, and sent official letters requesting that the CWCB designate and approve the
. floodplain information currently available to the community, The Town of Sawpit was
. conducted and were generally in agreement with the designation, However, an official letter had
. not been received at the time of this study, Copies of the request letters are included in the
. Appendix of this report, A memorandum explaining the Town of Sawpit discussion is also
. included in the Appendix,
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. Two separate meetings were held with San Miguel County and the Town of Telluride on
. November 9, 2000, The purpose of the meetings was to explain the designation process, to
. review the FIRMs and to solicit comments regarding the maps and general flooding conditions in
. the town, Members of the planning department staff were present at the county meeting and the
. Town Engineer was present at the meeting with Telluride, A field tour of several San Miguel
. County floodplains was also conducted at this time, No contradictory evidence to the PIS was
. found during the field review, A phone meeting was held with the Town of Sawpit to discuss the
. designation. A summary of the meetings, field tour and photos are shown in the Appendix,

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