FLOOD05881

• Designation Number: 239
• County: Otero
• Community: Unincorporated Otero County
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Otero County, Colorado
• Date: 8/1/1985
• Designation Date: 5/1/1985
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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 unincorporated areaS of Otero 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 Otero County 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
hydrologio and hydraulic technical and soientific 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
Natural and Technological Hazards Division, FEMA, Building 710,
Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado B0225 for consideration
for revision of this study.

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.