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<br />Federal Emergency :Management: Agency
<br />Washington, D.C. 204.72
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<br />CERTIFIED MAIL
<br />RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
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<br />IN REPL'{ REFER TO:
<br />IA-RA-'a.:, (102A)
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<br />The Honorable Phyllis B. Pennington
<br />Mayor, Town of Wiggins
<br />P.O. Box 287
<br />Wiggins, Colorado 80654
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<br />Communi I::,: Ta>m of Wi.ggins, Colorado
<br />~lap P2m,,). NumbE!r: FIlll! 080204 0001 B
<br />FBFM 080204 0001 B
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<br />gffe(:t.ivE~ Date:
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<br />DEe 0 5 1989
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<br />Dear Mayor Pennington:
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<br />This is in response to a letter dated October 3, 1989, from tir. John C.
<br />Ho Idren, Town Manager, Town of W~ggins, f<;!gard ing the E!ffec t i ve nood
<br />Insurance Study (FIS) report, Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and Flood
<br />Boundary and F100dway Map (.BFM) for the Town of Wiggins, ColoradO, dated
<br />February 15, 1979. Mr. Holdren submitted additional data requested in our
<br />letter dated August 31, 1989. These data. .'er'e requested to support his
<br />initial revision request, dated Janvary 3D, 1989, to revi'~E! the effective
<br />FIRM and .BFM for the Town of Wiggins, reflec:ting the n'2wly constructed levee
<br />along the east side of Kiowa Creek in Morgan County, CCllol~ado, to provi.de
<br />flood protection for the entire Town vf .riggins,
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<br />In support of his request, Mr. Holdren submitted the following on January 30,
<br />March 13, June 6, and October 3, 1989$
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<br />· Copy of letters fr.om Arix CorpolCa,ti.on, dated Decemb,~r 19, 1988, and
<br />l~arch 9 and June 27, 1989, reilarding the new hydraulico anaIysi"
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<br />'. A copy of a lett,ar dated March 7, 1989, from thE! Colorado Wat,alC
<br />Conservation Board regarding ,he floodway revision
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<br />'. A copy of a report entitled "Ki",w'll CrE!ek Flood Protecti"n
<br />Improvements Interior Drainage ~,nalys,i.s, Town elf .Iiggins, Morgan
<br />Gounty, Colorado. 11 prepared by AICix C'Jrporation., datE!d November 198,3,
<br />revised June 1989
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<br />'. A topographic map at a scale of 1:: ~;(I() which show!' the new flood
<br />boundaries, prepare,d by Arix Corporation and datlad Dec:e,mbe," 1988
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<br />Sheet' 1
<br />drawings
<br />prepat"ed
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<br />through 14 of 14 and ShE!ets 1 :hrough 26 of 26 of the record
<br />entitled "Kiowa creek Plo"d Protection Improvements,"
<br />by Arix Corporation "nd dated November 1988
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<br />" II copy of a published public (lotice to ,'evi.e th,~ flood map
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<br />We have completed our review of the submi t t.!d data wi th re!~8,rd to the datil
<br />used to produce the effective FIRM and FB.r1 .md have revised the FIRM to
<br />modi f)' the floodplain boundary delineations and zone d,~signlltiolO. of a flood
<br />having a l-percent probabil.ity of being "qualed I)r excee:decl in any given ye,.".
<br />(base flood) along Kiowa Creek frorr< approxim,'tely 5,0000 feet upseream of
<br />Road I' to approximately 1,000 feet downst.ream oj' Int.!rstllte 76, The ba"i"
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