FLOOD08203

• County: Rio Blanco
• Community: Meeker
• Stream Name: Sulphur Creek
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Title: LOMR - Affected Panel 080151 0001 B - Case No. 98-08-126P
• Date: 8/6/1998
• Prepared For: Meeker
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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Federal Emergency Management Agency
Washington, D.C. 20472

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RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

IN REPLY REFER TO:
Case No.: 98-08-126P

The Honorable Bill Dunham
Mayor, Town of Meeker
P.O. Box 38
Meeker. Colorado 81641

Community: Town of Meeker, Colorado
Community No.: 080151
Panel Affected: 0001 B
Effective Date of AUG 0 6 1998
This Revision:

I02-I-A-C

Dear Mayor Dunham:

This responds to a request that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) revise the effective
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) and Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community in
accordance with Part 65 of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) regulations. In a letter dated
December 31, 1997, Mr. Peter Belau, P.E., ENARTECH, Inc., requested that FEMA revise the FIRM
and FIS report to show the effects of the Phase II flood control improvements along Sulphur Creek as
shown on the as-built plans entitled "Town of Meeker, CO. Sulphur Creek Flood Control Project Phase II
Improvements," prepared by ENARTECH, Inc., dated December 1997. These improvements include
construction of a concrete cutoff wall with riprap channel sides at the confluence with the White River and
removal of concrete baffle blocks at the upstream end of the cutoff wall; construction of a concrete-lined
channel from approximately 210 feet upstream to approximately 990 feet upstream of the confluence;
placement of riprap from approximately 885 feet upstream to approximately 990 feet upstream of the
confluence; construction of a riprap-lined concrete channel at the irrigation ditch crossing from
approximately 1,725 feet upstream to approximately 1,875 feet upstream of the confluence; replacement
of an 8-foot-diameter culvert with a 40-foot span, 14-foot-wide bridge approximately 2,729 feet upstream
of the confluence; and construction of a grass-lined channel from approximately 2,196 feet upstream to
approximately 3,900 feet upstream of the confluence. This request follows up on a Conditional Letter of
Map Revision issued on March 18, 1993.

All data required to complete our review of this request were submitted with letters from Mr. Belau.
Because this Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) is based on a detailed hydrologic or hydraulic study
conducted by a Federal, State, or local agency to replace an approximate study conducted by FEMA, fees
were not assessed for the review.

We have completed our review of the submitted data and the flood data shown on the effective FIRM and
FIS report. We have revised the FIRM and FIS report to modify the elevations, floodplain boundary
delineations, and zone designations of the flood having a I-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded
in any given year (base flood) along the revised reach of Sulphur Creek. As a result of the modifications,