FLOOD07248

• County: Weld
• Community: Weld County Unincorporated
• Stream Name: South Platte River
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Weld Unincorporated Community File
• Date: 1/1/2001
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Community File

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These elevations, together with the flood plain management measures

required by Section 1910.3 of the program regulations, are the minimum

that are required. ,They should not be construed to mean the community

must change any existing ordinances that are'more stringent in'their

flood plain management reqUirements. The community may at any time enact

stricter requirements on its own, or pursuant to policies established by

other Federal,State. or regional entities. These proposed eleva-

tions will also be used to calculate.the appropriate flood insurance premium

rates,for ne~ buildings and their contents and for the second layer of

,insurance on existing buildings and their contents~

The proposed base (lOO-year) flood elevations for selected locations

are:

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Source of Flooding

Location'

Elevation, feet,
National Geodetic
Vertical Datum

South Platte River

Confluence with,the
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County Road-
50 feet*
U.S. Highway 31~at
centerline
U.S. Highway 34 Bypass-
at centerline
31th Street and County,
Road 54-at centerline
Union Pacific Raiiroad- '
at cent.erline"
14th Street-at centerline
State Highway 52-50 feet*

4601

'.4612

4624

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4639"'

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, '4650

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4886
4898

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U.S. Highway 34 Levee
Overflow Channel

County Road 45.1/2-at
centerline
U.S. Highway 34 Levee-
centerline

4614

4622

* upstream from centerline