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<br />FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY <br />TOWN OF WELLINGTON, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO <br /> <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />1.1 Purpose of Study <br /> <br />This Flood Insurance Study revises and updates a previous Flood <br />Insurance Study/Flood Insu~ance Rate Map for the Town of <br />Wellington, Larimer County, Colorado. This information will be <br />used by the Town of Wellington to update existing floodplain <br />regulations as part of the Regular Phase of the National Flood <br />Insurance Program (NFIP). The information will also be used by <br />local and regional planners to further p~omote sound land use and <br />floodplain development. <br /> <br />In some states or communities, floodplain management criteria or <br />regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive <br />than the minimum Federal requirements. In such ca.ses, the more <br />restrictive criteria take precedence and the State (or other <br />jurisdictional agency) will be able to explain them. <br /> <br />1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments <br /> <br />The sources of authority <br />National Flood Insurance <br />Protection Act of 1973. <br /> <br />for this Flood Insurance Study are the <br />Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster <br /> <br />The hydrologic and hydraulic an<llyses for the original study were <br />performed by Gingery Associates, Inc., for the Federal Insurance <br />Administration (FIA), under Contract No. H-40l7. This work, which <br />was completed in October 1977, covered all significant flooding <br />sources affecting the Town of Wellington. <br /> <br />The revised hydraulic analysis of Boxelder Creek was taken from a <br />1983 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service <br />(SCs) Floodplain Management Study (Reference 1) using hydrology <br />developed by Simons, Li, and Associates (Reference 2). <br /> <br />1.3 Coordination <br /> <br />The areas requiring detailed study for the original study were <br />identified at a meeting attended by personnel of the study <br />contractor and the FIA, officials of the Town of Wellington, and <br />members of the Larimer County Planning Department On April 20, <br />1976. Base maps were provided by Larimer COUl"lty al"ld the Town of <br />Well ington. <br /> <br />The SCS was contacted in order to obtain data from their Boxelder <br />Watershed Flood Plain Information report (Reference 1). They also <br />provided information Ol"l the proposed storage reservoirs in regard <br />to the effects of flood discharges and the anticipated and actual <br />completion dates in all reservoirs. <br />