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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In his July 8 letter, Mr. Bunting stated that the sole property owner
affected by this revision was notified and has no objections.

A LOMR was issued on the same date as this letter
Springs, Colorado, to incorporate the results
hydraulic analyses into the FIRM for that community.

for the City of Colorado
of the above-mentioned

The modifications are shown on the enclosed annotated copy of FIRM Panel
0168 C; Profile Panels 198P, 199P, and 200P; and the Floodway Data Table'for
Sand Creek. This LOMR hereby revises this panel of the effective FIRM dated
September 30, 1992, and the Flood Profiles and Floodway Data Table in the FIS
report dated September 30, 1992. Cross Section AZ has been removed from the
Floodway Data Table for Sand Creek in El Paso County because it now lies
entirely within the corporate limits for the City of Colorado Springs.
Because of channel improvements, the stream length has been shortened. To
account for the difference, an equality is shown on Profile Panel 200P.

The name of the railroad shown on effective Profile Panel 198P was changed
from Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad to the Colorado and Eastern
Railroad to agree with the information shown on FIRM Panel 0168 C. The name
of the railroad was confirmed by Mr. Bunting during a telephone conversation
with a representative of our Technical Evaluation Contractor. on August 12,
1994.

The following table is a partial listing of existing and modified BFEs:

Location

Existing BFE
(feet)*

MOdified BFE
Cfeet)*

Just upstream of Colorado and
Eastern Railroad
Approximately 400 feet upstream
of Colorado and Eastern
Railroad

6,390

6,390

6,396

6,394

*Referenced to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum, rounded to the nearest
whole foot

Public notification of the proposed modified BFEs will be given in, ,the
Gazette Tele~raph on or about September 8 and September 15, 1994; A copy of,
this notification is enclosed. In addition, a notice' of changes will be
published in the Federal Re~ister. We encourage you to supplement this
notification by preparing an article for publication in your' community
newspaper. This article should describe the changes that have been made and
the assistance your community will give in providing data and interpreting
the NFIP maps. Because this LOMR will not be printed and distributed to
primary users, such as local insurance agents and mortgage lenders, your
community will serve as a repository for the new data.

The revisions are effective as of the date of this letter; however, within
90 days of the second publication in the Gazette Tele~raph, a citizen may
request that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reconsider the
determination made by this LOMR. Any request for reconsideration must be
based on scientific or technical data. All interested parties are on notice