FLOOD05193

• County: El Paso
• Community: El Paso County
• Stream Name: Jimmy Camp Creek
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Hazard Analyses
• Date: 10/1/1975
• Prepared For: El Paso County
• Prepared By: USDA Soil Conservation Service
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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FLOOD HAZARD ANALYSES

PORTIONS OF JIMMY CAMP CREEK
AND TRIBUTARIES
EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO

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The study was requested by the EI Paso County and the Pikes Peak

Area Council of Governments through the Colorado Water Conservation

INTRODUCTION

Board. One of the responsibilities of the Board is to guide the proper

flood plain land use and management to reduce potential flood losses.

This flood hazard analyses report presents the resul ts of a study

on the flood plain lands of Jimmy Camp Creek, Colorado. It was prepared

by the Soil Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, in

cooperation with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, EI Paso County,

and the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments.

Before local entities can prepare flood plain zoning regulations, the

Colorado Statutes provide as follows:

Section 37-60-106(1)(c) of the Colorado Revised Statutes 1973,
requires that the Colorado Water Conservation Board designate and
approve storm or floodJua:ter runoff channels and to make such
designation available to legislative bodies of local ju:l'isdictions;
and

Primary purpose of this report is to provide maps of the flood

hazard areas so that local governments can develop flood plain regula-

tions. Urban development has spread eastward from the Colorado Springs

area towards Jimmy Camp Creek. Without regulations, it is very diffi-

cult to prevent encroachment in the flood plains. Flood hazard maps are

useful in the enforcement of flood plain regulations. Included in the

report are engineering and hydrologic data which will facilitate the use

of the maps. The data can also be used in the location and design of

roads, bridges, and channel modIfication. The report contains interpre-

tations of the flood hazard analyses and recommendations to minimize

flood damages. The technical data should be useful in preparing a

master drainage plan for Jimmy Camp Creek. However, it Is beyond the
.

Section 30-28-111 for county govePnments and Section 31-23-201 for
municipal governments of the Colorado Revised Sta1;utes 1973,
provides that such cities, towns, incorporated areas and local
ju:l'isdictions shall provide zoning regulations for any storm or
floodwater runoff channel only after designation and approval by
the Colorado "ater Conservation Board.

Flood hazard analyses are carried out by the Soil Conservation

Service as an outgrowth of the recommendations in A Report by the Task
Force on Federal FZood Control Policy, House Document ~o. ~65 (89th
Congress, August 10,1966), especially Reconrnendation 9(c), Regulation
of Land Use, which recommended the preparation of preliminary reports
for guidance in those areas.where assistance is needed before a full

flood hazard information report can be prepared or where a full report
Is not scheduled.

scope of this study to provide specific proposals or plans to rectify
the flooding problems.

Authority for funding flood hazard analyses is provided by Section
6 of Public law 83-566, which authorizes the U.S. Department of Agrlcul-

ture to cooperate with other federal, state and local agencies to make

Investigations and surveys of the watersheds of rivers and other water-

ways as a basis for the development of coordinated programs.