FLOOD06645

• County: El Paso
• Community: Colorado Springs
• Stream Name: Dry Creek
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: LOMR - Affected Panel 080060 0134 C, 080060 0153 C - Case No. 96-08-032P
• Date: 1/22/1996
• Prepared For: Colorado Springs
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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the FIRM has been revised to eliminate a discrepancy between the effective FIRM and the Flood Profile

in the effective Flood Insurance Study report. The table below indicates the modified BFEs for several

locations along the affected length of Dry Creek and South Valley Dry Creek.

Location

Existing BFE
(feet)*

Modified BFE
(feet) *

Dry Creek:
Approximately 350 feet upstream of Dancing Horse
Drive
Downstream limit of detention pond southeast of
intersection of Woodmen Road and Orchard
Valley Road
Upstream limit of detention pond
Approximately 500 feet upstream of intersection of
Orchard Path Road and Orchard Valley Road

6,569

6,575

6,608
6,622

6,613
6,613

6,678

6,678

South Valley Dry Creek:
Approximately 150 feet upstream of intersection of
Orchard Path Road and Orchard Valley Road
Approximately 225 feet upstream of intersection of
Orchard Path Road and Orchard Valley Road
Approximately 550 feet upstream of intersection of
Orchard Path Road and Orchard Valley Road
Approximately 1.150 feet upstream of intersection of
Orchard Path Road and Orchard Valley Road

6,675

6,670

6,678

6,678

6,676**

6,703

6,703**

6,708

*National Geodetic Vertical Datum, rounded to nearest whole foot
**Elevations shown on effective FIRM dated March 2, 1989

Under the above-mentioned Acts of 1968 and 1973, the Mitigation Directorate must develop

criteria for floodplain management. For the community to participate in the National Flood Insurance

Program (NFIP), the community must use the modified BFEs to administer the floodplain management

measures of the NFIP. These modified BFEs will also be used to calculate the appropriate flood

insurance premium rates for new buildings and their contents and for the second layer of insurance on

existing buildings and contents.

Upon the second publication of notice of these changes in this newspaper, any person has 90 days

in which he or she can request, through the Chief Executive Officer of the community, that the Mitigation