FLOOD03733

• County: Teller
• Community: Hayman Fire Area, northern & western Teller County
• Stream Name: Turkey Creek, Trail Creek, Trout Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: 2004 Flood Documentation Report - State of Colorado, Teller County, Colorado Floods of July 2004
• Date: 2/1/2005
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: ICON Engineering, Inc
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

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infomlation specific to Teller County but did report se....ere weather including hail for
nl.:'ighhoring counties July 16-18. CoCoRaHS had no archi....ed weather infom13tion for
July ~004 after the ::!ISI.

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The July Starn Even1s ofTeller County

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Figure 1. 18 - Monthly Rainfall Rate CTaph for Woodland Park,
Colorado, July2004. rml!lge coLrt~y of 'W~th9r Lnderground com"

Total precipitation amounts for the July 16-1 R stomls were reported at 3 to 5 inches. This
represents one to two times the monthly precipitation averages measured in the county
(for example. the to\\TI of Di....ide. Colorado in Teller County a....erages 3.1 inches of
precipitation for the month of July) for scvcral stonn events spanning only a couple of
days.

U,-drnlo2.ic and IIvdraulic In\'esti2.utions

Teller County has scvcral major drainagc-ways including: Trout Creek. Turkcy Crcck.
Twin en.:ck. Trai] Creck. Founnile Creek. and Cripple Creck to name a few. These
creeks now in various directions throughout the county however: in general. they
typically now to the east where they combine with various other drainage-ways in other
counties eventually emptying into larger rivers that now along the Front Range.

A FEMA Flood Insurance Study (FlS) ha'i becn puhlished for Teller County according to
the FE;\tA \\eb site hO\\eH:r; this study was not availahle for inclusion in this report.

A site visit was made to the Teller County area on Ju]y :!th. 2004 by ICON Engineering.
Inc. (ICON) personnel to inspect and photograph the damage that had occurred from
various stonns including the stonns on thc l6.IS1h of July and thc week of the 211ld
through the 14th. Site visits were made to the Turkey Ranch arca. the Shelf Road. and
Trail Creek Road.

No nO\\ gages were available l'i"u the Turkey Ranch area or any areas receiving damage
in Teller County_

In the abscnce of thm" gage infonnation or survcyed high-water marks. a hydrologic
analysis was pcrfonned using available rainfall data for the area. The only source found
for rainfall infonnation in the region was a weather station located in Woodland Park and
monitored l:1y the Weather Underground web site. The data displayed at this web sitc was

ICON EngU"iC(;nng, Inc

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