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<br />width, 350 feet, occurred approximately 770 feet downstream of Rangewood Drive, The SFHA increased
<br />and extended an additional 500 feet at the area affected by backwater from Cottonwood Creek
<br />approximately 150 feet upstream of Rangewood Drive, The width of the floodway increased and
<br />decreased along the entire revised reach, The maximum increase in flood way width, 60 feet, occurred
<br />approximately 600 feet upstream of Rangewood Drive, The maximum decrease in floodway width,
<br />50 feet, occurred approximately 1,300 feet upstream of Rangewood Drive,
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<br />The modifications are shown on the enclosed annotated copies of FIRM Panels 0154 C and 0158 B,
<br />Profile Panels 16P and 17P, and the Floodway Data Tables for Cottonwood Creek, This LOMR hereby
<br />revises these panels ofthe effective FIRM dated March 2, 1989, and December 18, 1986, respectively,
<br />and The Flood Profiles and Floodway Data Tables in the FIS report dated November 2, 1994,
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<br />The following table is a partial listing of existing and modified BFEs:
<br />
<br />Location
<br />
<br />Existing BFE
<br />(feet).
<br />
<br />Modified BFE
<br />(feet).
<br />
<br />Cottonwood Creek:
<br />Approximately 1,650 feet downstream of Rangewood Drive
<br />Approximately 250 feet downstream of Rangewood Drive
<br />Just upstream of Rangewood Drive
<br />Approximately 1,650 feet upstream of Rangewood Drive
<br />
<br />6,569
<br />6,591
<br />6,595
<br />6,620
<br />
<br />6,569
<br />6,586
<br />6,603
<br />6,620
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<br />.Referenced to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum, rounded to the nearest whole foot
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<br />Public notification of the revised BFEs will be given in the Gazette Telegraph on or about August 4 and
<br />August 11, 1995, A copy of this notification is enclosed, Any request for reconsideration must be based
<br />on scientific or technical data, In addition, a notice of changes will be published in the Federal Ree-ister,
<br />
<br />Because this LOMR will not be printed and distributed to primary users, such as local insurance agents
<br />and mortgage lenders, your community will serve as a repository for these new data, We encourage you
<br />to disseminate the information reflected by this LOMR throughout the community, so that interested
<br />persons, such as property owners, local insurance agents, and mortgage lenders, may benefit from the
<br />i;;[ormation, We also encourage you to prepare a related article for publication in your community's local
<br />newspaper, This article should describe the assistance that officials of your community will give to
<br />interested persons by providing these data and interpreting the NFlP maps,
<br />
<br />The revisions are effective as of the date of this letter; however, within 90 days of the second publication
<br />in the Gazette Telegraph, a citizen may request that FEMA reconsider the detennination made by this
<br />LOMR, Any request for reconsideration must be based on scientific or technical data, All interested
<br />parties are on notice that, until the 90-day period elapses, the determination to modify the BFEs presented
<br />in this LOMR may itself be modified,
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<br />Preliminary copies of the countywide FIRM, which presents information from the effective FIRMs for
<br />your community and other incorporated communities in El Paso County, were submitted to your
<br />community for review on June 28, 1995, We will incorporate the modifications described in this LOMR
<br />into the countywide FIRM as a physical map revision, Preliminary copies will be sent to your community
<br />for review within 4 months of the date of this letter, There is a discrepancy in the length of the channel
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