FLOOD08536

• County: El Paso
• Community: Fountain
• Stream Name: Fountain Creek, Jimmy Camp Creek
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - City of Fountain
• Date: 12/5/1984
• Prepared For: Fountain
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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~onUB Al, A2, A4, AB, A9,
A13, A14, A16,
and A1B I

Spec~al Flood Hazard Areas inundat~d by
theliOO-year flood, wi th base flood
elev~tions shown, snd zones subdivided
according to FI/Fs,

Zone B:

Areas between the Special Flood Hazard
Areas and the limits of the SOO-year
f1oo~, areas that are protected from
the 100- or SOD-year floods by dike,
;Levs., ,or other local water-control
str~dturel areas subject to certain
types: of 100-year shallow flooding where
deptns are less than 1,0 foot, and areas
subject to lbO-year flooding from sources
with drainage areas less than 1 square
mile.' ZoneB ie not subdivided.

Zone CI

Areas. of minimal flood hazard, not sub-
divid~d.

5.4 Flood Insurance Rate Mapti.scription

The Flood Insuranoe Rate Map fori Fountain is, for insuranoe purposes,
the prinoipal prOduot of the Flobd Insuranoe StUdy. This map
oontains the official deHneatiohof flood 1nauranoe zones and
base flood elev8tions.Baee flohdelevation Hnes show the locations
of the expeoted whole_foot waterrsurfaoe elevation of the base
(lOa-year) flOOd. The base flood elevations and zone numbers are
used byinsuranoe agents, in oonDunotion with struoture elevations
and oharaoter istics ,t08llsign actuarial insurance rates to struc-
tures and conten,ts insured under the NFIP,

6.0 OTHER STUDIES

A Flood Insuranoe Study is being ,prepa~ed for the uninoorporated areas
of El Puo COunty, Colorado (Referenoe!l). The hydrologio and hydraulio
analyses determined for the oounty'stu~y were used direotly for this
Flood Insuranoe Study, Theufore, thelstudies are in agreement,

In 1976, Re rt on II rolo 10 I e 'tions FlOOd Insuranoe StUd
Colorado Springs and El Paso ~ount~ wa, prepared by the CDE (Referenoe 5),
Hydrologio data were uled frQ.m tMs report for Fountain, .rimmy Camp,
Seourity, and Widefield,Cr.eks.,

Hydrologio data from a 1973 COE roport~ Flood Plntn Information, ~'ountain
and Jimmy Camp Cra.ks, Colorado Spring~, Fountain, I'll Paso County, Colorado,
for Fountain, and Jimmy Camp Crae,ks are! in !l9ceemtmt with flow data developed
for this Flood Insurance Stu4y. ;

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