FLOOD03947

• County: Weld
• Community: Milliken
• Stream Name: Local Drainage
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Floodplain Information Report
• Date: 10/1/1982
• Prepared For: Milliken
• Prepared By: Simons Li & Associates Inc.
• Contract/PO #: &&
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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elelllene..ry""hool to reach tile drain4g-editch rnnningdown th,,"'est side 0 t
Quentin" Avenue. The intersection of Quentine Avenue and Broad Street is too

high to permit overland flow diagonally northwest from the school yard to the

western ditch. Water lnBtead runs down the ....stern ditch , which ill the front
yardsoftheho"",slocated"""tofQuentin..Avenue,..ndlntothehouse"which
are set lewer than t~ road. The erosion problem 1s ca"sed by high flow ve-
locite.. achieved a" the water tumbles down four percent grades on gravel
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On the Lola ParI< Tributary, the d18chllrge 19 blocke<lpr1marily by Highway
60 and the Great ~..tern ~ilro..d ~..nkment. The culvert e1stem provided to
drain the tIre station pond through Broad Street has .. capacity of 20 efa
which 18 1es8 than the 2-year di8char~e pre~icted by hydrologic analysis. A
eimilar situation exists at the Great Western Railroad embankment.

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On the east end of Milliken, the existing culvert un~er the Union pacific
Railroad embank~ent has.. capacity of 50 cfs, ~ughly the 10-year discharge.
The capac1ty of the drainage ditch west of County Rolld 23 downstream of the
railroad embankment is restricted by small culverts under driveways IIn~

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High""y 60.

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nood Inaurance
The national ~lood Insurancp. Program is .. federal program that enables
prop"rty owners to buy tlood insurance ...t a r.....sonable, lJUbsidired cos~. III
return, communities ...re required to carry out flood plain managettent measures
to protect lives an~ new construction trom tuture tlooding.
Flood insurance through the Flood Insurance Program is available to ...11

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residents of Weld County and the Town ot Milliken under the regular phase of
th" progra... w..ld County enten.d th" regular progn... M.orch 18,1980. Th..
Town ot Milliken joined the regular program August 1, 197'1, A flood insurance
swrunarv is shown in Table 7.

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Additional information on the Flood Insurance Program is available from
local insurance ~gents or brokers aad:

Federal Emergency Management Agency
Oivision of Insurance an~ Mitigation
Denver Fede.....tCenter, Blllldlng710
L4<ewood, Colorado g0225
TOlephone, (303)234-658.

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