FLOOD04959

• County: Garfield
• Community: Rifle
• Stream Name: Rifle Creek
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: City of Rifle Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan - The May 15, 1993 Flood
• Date: 9/1/1993
• Prepared For: Rifle
• Prepared By: Rifle, Colorado Office of Emergency Management
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

City of Ri{k Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan

ture(s) is/are needed.

The Rifle Trail

Prior to the May 15th flood, the City of Rifle was
in the final stages of planning the Rifle Trail. The
plan calls for a multiple user trail to be developed
over the next several years which would follow
Rifle Creek through the City of Rifle north to the
Rifle Gap Dam, From there, the trail will extend
to the city's Rifle Mountain Park. Through town,
the plan calls for separate hard surface and soft
surface trails running next to each other for use
by a variety of individuals including handi-
capped persons, seniors, bicyclists, joggers and
so forth. The hard surface would ideally be a

ten-foot wide concrete path and the soft surface
a five- foot wide non-surfaced section. In order to
cut costs, crusher fines would be used instead of
concrete. The right-of-way for the trail will be
twenty to twenty-five feet wide.

The fact that the proposed trail follows Rifle
Creek through town provides an excellent oppor-
tunity for flood mitigation. One ofthe properties
that was destroyed lies along the path of the
proposed trail. The City of Rifle should make
every effort to purchase this property and incor-
porate it into the trail system. Public acquisition
of flood hazard property is perhaps the most
cost-effective means of flood hazard mitigation.
These hazardous properties can be developed to
benefit the community in multiple ways. The

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