FLOOD05450

• County: Ouray
• Community: Ouray
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: FIS - Ouray
• Date: 7/3/1985
• Prepared For: Ouray
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Current FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY

1. 0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Purpose of Study

This Flood Insurance Study investigates the existence and severity
of flood hazards in the City of Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, and
aids in the administration of the National Flood Insurance Act of
1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. This study
will be used to convert the City of Ouray to the regular program
of flood insurance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA). Local and regional planners will use this study in their
efforts to promote sound flood plain management.

This Flood Insurance Study was prepared by compiling existing
hydrologic and hydraulic technical and scientific data prepared by
other organization(s) originally for purposes other than the
National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The data were identified
as the best available at the time of compilation of this Flood.
Insurance Study and should depict the general conditions of the
flooding sources with relative accuracy. FEMA performed a cursory
review and accepted the data as valid for purposes of this Flood
Insurance Study and the NFIP. However, if better information is
known to exist or has been developed since the date of this
report, the information should be immediately forwarded to the
address below for consideration for revision of this study.

Natural and Technological Hazards Division, FEMA, Building 710,
Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado 80225.

In some states or communities, flood plain management criteria or
regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive
than those on which this federally supported study is based.
These criteria take precedence over the minimum Federal criteria
for purposes of regulating development in the flood plain, as set
forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 44 CFR, 60.3(c). In
such cases, however, it shall be understood that the state (or
other jurisdictional agency) shall be able to explain these
requirements and criteria.

1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments

The sources of authority for this Flood Insurance Study are the
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster
Protection Act of 1973.

The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for this study were performed
by A&S Consultants, Inc., as reported in the Floodplain Information
Report (FPI) for Ouray County, Colorado (Reference 1).