FLOOD06461

• County: Larimer
• Community: Estes Park
• Stream Name: Fall River, Lawn Lake
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: The Lawn Lake Dam Failure and the Fall River Flood
• Date: 8/6/1982
• Prepared For: FEMA
• Prepared By: Many
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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None re::IUired

IInmediately

Provide technical assistance to Larimer County
and the fuwn of Estes Park Floodplain Adminis-
trations through the Camnmity Assistance Pro-
gram Evaluation (CAPE)

Inmediate technical assistance has been pro-
vided to the Estes Park Flood Plain Administra-
tor on a daily basis. ContinUing assistance is
needed to insUre that both Larimer County and the
Town of Estes Park can effectively administer
their floodplain management ordinances.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

, None required

On-going

Exchange clam inspection, hydrologic, and safety
infonnation.

Infonnation relative to clam operations and in-
spections must be routinely distributed arrong
all parties involved: i.e. State and Federal
inspectors, land managing agencies, and
irrigation and power ccmpanies or agencies,
When safety concerns are identified, :imnediate
notifications should be made to all parties, in-
cluding officials responsible for public safety.

Federal Elnergency Managanent Agency

None required

IInmediately and on-going

Examine the feasibility of dam failure in-
undation mapping.

The ~undation area for this clam failure covered
all of Zone A, Zone B and far into Zone C;
therefore, llOst property <Mrlers did not carry
flood insurance. Property owners interviewed
stated that since their property was located
above the 500-year floodplain the threat fran
flood was not realized.

Federal Emergency Managanent Agency

None required
IDng-teJ:m mitigation opportunity

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