FLOOD07384

• County: Mesa
• Community: Palisade
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: FIS - Palisade
• Date: 7/15/1992
• Prepared For: Palisade
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Current FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY
TOWN OF PALISADE, MESA COUNTY, COLORADO

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Purpose of Study

This Flood Insurance Study revises and updates a previous Flood
Insurance Study/Flood Insurance Rate Map for the Town of Palisade,
Mesa County, Colorado (Reference 1). This information will be used
by the Town of Palisade to update existing floodplain regulations
as part of the Regular Phase of the National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP). The information will also be used by local and
regional planners to further promote sound land use and floodplain
development.

In some states or communi ties, floodplain management cri teria or
regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive
than the minimum Federal requirements. In such cases, the more
restrictive criteria take precedence and the State (or other
jurisdictional agency) will be able to explain them.

1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments

The sources of authori ty
National Flood Insurance
Protection Act of 1973.

for this
Act of

Flood
1968

Insurance
and the

Study are the
Flood Disaster

The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for the initial study were
performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), as reported in
the Flood Hazard Information Reoort. Colorado River. Palisade.
Colorado (Reference 2). The initial Flood Insurance Study was
completed in March 1985 by Dames & Moore using detailed study data
from the COE report.

The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for this restudy were
performed by J. F. Sato and Associates, Inc., for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), under Contract
No. EMW-89-C-2838. This work was completed in June 1990.

1.3 Coordination

On June 9, 1988, an initial consultation and coordination (CCO)
meeting for the restudy of the flooding from the Colorado River was
held in Palisade. This meeting, attended by representatives of the
Town of Palisade, FEMA, the Colorado Water Conservation Board
(CWCB), and the study contractor, was held to discuss the nature
and purpose of the study and the scope and limits of work.

On March 19, 1991, the town was provided with the Flood Insurance
Rate Map which represented the results of the June 1990 study. The
town accepted this study by letter on August 6, 1991.