FLOOD05827

• County: Boulder
• Community: Boulder
• Stream Name: Boulder Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Boulder Creek Phase B
• Date: 12/1/1979
• Prepared For: Boulder
• Prepared By: UDFCD
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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c.

Citizen attitudes related to drainage, flood control, and

damage protection, and future development.

d.

Planning information on present and future development

pertaining to proposed flood control improvements.

e.

Existing drainage structures presently used in the major

drainage system.

f. Potential hazards due to flooding and physical entanglement

with existing utilities and topographic features.

g.

Review alternative improvements developed throughout the study

progress.

4.

Entities, agencies and individuals were contacted to obtain spe-

cific data:

a. City of Boulder
1) Exi st i ng drainage fac i 1 it ies
2) Exi st i ng ut i 1 it i es
3) Land use plans
4) Development trends
5) Floodplain regulations

b.

Boulder County

1)
2)
3)

Floodplain regulations

Emergency preparedness

Geology; estimated sediment size distribution

c.

Boulder Valley Publ ic Schools

l)

Emergency preparedness

2)

Information pertaining to proposed flood control im-
provements in the vicinity of Boulder High School.

d.

Colorado State Geologist

1) Sediment and erosion

2)

Existing geological conditions

e.

Colorado Department of Highways

1)
2)

Proposed 47th Street crossing

Review and comment concerning proposed
bridge improvements

f.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

1) Technical criteria relative to flood insurance regulation
and po 1 icy.

2) Review and comment concerning proposed improvements

g. United States Army Corps of Engineers

1)
2)

Previous studies

Review and comment concerning proposed improvements

h.

Private developers, realtors and interested individuals who

expressed knowledge concerning development within the Basin.

5.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers topographic mapping was

updated in the immediate vicinity of Boulder Creek by Bell Mapping

Company, Denver, Colorado, under a separate contract with Urban

Drainage and Flood Control District.

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