FLOOD04867

• County: Boulder
• Community: Boulder County and Incorporated Areas
• Stream Name: Lefthand Creek, St. Vrain Creek, Dry Creek No. 1
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: LOMR - Affected Panel 286F, 287F, 288F, 289F - Case No. 03-08-0580P
• Date: 10/7/2004
• Prepared For: FEMA
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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

Location

Existing BFE
(feet)*

Modified BFE
(feet)*

Lefthand Creek:
Just upstream of confluence with St. Vrain Creek
Just downstream of South Main Street

4,926
4,951

4,927
4,948

St. Vrain Creek:
Approximately 160 feet upstream of 119th Street
Approximately 3,700 feet upstream of 119th Street

4,916
4,927

4,918
4,928

Dry Creek No, I (Old Channel):
Approximately 300 feet upstream of confluence
with St. Vrain Creek
Just downstream of Ken Pratt Boulevard

4.941
4,944

4,940
4,942

Shallow Flooding Areas:
Just upstream of Ken Pratt Boulevard
Just downstream of South Main Street

4,936
4,944

3'
2'

*Referenced to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum, rounded to the nearest whole foot
'Depth above ground, rounded to the nearest whole foot

Public notification of the proposed modified BFEs will be given in the Daily Times Call on or about July I
and July 8, 2004, A copy of this notification is enclosed. In addition, a notice of changes will be
published in the Federal Register, Within 90 days of the second publication in the Daily Times Call, any
interested party may request that FEMA reconsider the detennination made by this LOMR. Any request
for reconsideration must be based on scientific or technical data. All interested parties are on notice that,
until the 90-day period elapses, the determination to modify the BFEs made by this LOMR may itself be
modified,

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 these new data, We encourage you to
disseminate the information reflected by this LOMR throughout the community, so that interested persons,
such as property owners, local insurance agents, and mortgage lenders, may benefit from the information,
We also encourage you to prepare a related article for publication in your community's local newspaper.
This article should describe the assistance that officials of your community will give to interested persons
by providing these data and interpreting the NFIP maps,

We will not physically revise and republish the FIRM and FIS report for your community to reflect the
modifications made by this LOMR at this time. When changes to the previously cited FIRM panels and
FIS report warrant physical revision and republication in the future, we will incorporate the modifications
made by this LOMR at that time.