FLOOD03883

• County: El Paso
• Community: El Paso County
• Stream Name: Sand Creek
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: LOMR - Affected Panel 080059 0168 C - Case No. 94-08-121P
• Date: 8/24/1994
• Prepared For: El Paso County
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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Federal Emergency Manage
Washington, D.C. 20472

CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

IN REPLY REFER TO:
Case No. : 94".08-121P

The Honorable Jeri Howells
Chairperson, El Paso County Board
of Commissioners
27 East Vermijo
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903

Community: El Paso County,
Colorado
Community No.: 080059
Panel Affected: 0168 C
Effective Date of
This Revision:

AUG 2 4 1994

102-D-A

Dear Ms. Howells:

This is in response to a request for a revision to the effective Flood
Insurance Study (FIS) and National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) map for
your community. Specifically, this responds to a letter dated July 8, 1994,
from Mr. Dan Bunting, Regional FlOOdplain Administrator, Regional Building
Department, regarding the effective FIS report and Flood Insurance Rate Map
(FIRM) for the unincorporated areas of El Paso County, Colorado:. . Mr. Bunting
requested that we revise the effective FIRM to show the effects .of updated
topographic information, a channelization -project from the Colorado and
Eastern Railroad to North Carefree Circle, and existing culverts at
Constitution Avenue and North Carefree Circle that were not previously
modeled along Sand Creek.

All data required to complete our review of this request were submitted with
Mr. Bunting's letters dated May 24 and July 8, 1994. Because this Letter of
Map Revision (LOMa) shows the effects of a publicly sponsored flood-control
project that reduces flooding to existing development, fees were not assessed
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for the review.

We have completed our review of the submitted data and the flood data shown
on the effective FIRM, and have revised the FIRM to modify the elevations and
floodplain and floodway boundary delineations of a flood having a l-percent
probability of being equaled or exceeded in any given year (base flood) along
Sand Creek from the Colorado and Eastern Railroad to approximately 3,000 feet
upstream of North Carefree Circle. This revision is based on hydraulic
analyses performed to evaluate the impact of the channelization of Sand Creek
from the Colorado and Eastern Railroad to North Carefree Circle and the
effects of culverts at Constitution Avenue and North Carefree Circle. In
addition, the analyses reflect updated topographic information. As a result
of the revision, the Special Flood Hazard Area, floodway width, and the base
(lOO-year) flood elevations (BFEs) have been decreased along Sand Creek from
the Colorado and Eastern Railroad to approximately 400 feet upstream.