FLOOD08575

• County: El Paso
• Community: Colorado Springs
• Stream Name: Sand Creek West Fork
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: LOMR - Affected Panel 080060 0277 D, 080060 0281 C - Case No. 94-08-120P
• Date: 9/7/1994
• Prepared For: Colorado Springs
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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SEP 07 1994

CERTIFIED
RETURN RECE

IN REPLY REFER TO:
Case No.: .i9t1;fiOa"120P

The Honorable Robert Isaac
Mayor, City of Colorado Springs
P.O. Box 1575
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80901

Community: City of Colorado
Springs, Colorado
Community No.: 080060
Panels Affected: 0277 D and 0281 C
Effective Date of
This Revision:

102-I-A-C

Dear Mayor Isaac:

This is in response to a request for a revision to the effective Flood
Insurance Study (FIS) and National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) map for
your community. Specifically, this responds to a letter dated August 10,
1994, from Mr. Richard N. Wray, P.E., Principal, Kiowa Engineering
Corporation, regarding the effective FIS report and Flood Insurance Rate Map
(FIRM) for the City of Colorado Springs, Colorado. With his letter, Mr. Wray
submitted additional data to support a May 24, 1994, request for a Letter of
Map Revision (LOMR) from Mr. Dan Bunting, Regional Floodplain Administrator,
Regional Building Department. Mr. Ilunting requested that we revise the
effective FIRM to show the effects of the reconstruction of the bridge at
Murray Boulevard and channel modifications from approximately 300 feet
downstream to approximately 450 feet upstream of Murray Boulevard along Sand
Creek West Fork.

All data required to complete our review of this request were submitted with
Mr. Wray's August 10 letter and Mr. Bunting's. letters dated May 24 and
July 8, 1994. Because this LOMR shows the effects of a publicly sponsored
flood-control project that reduces flooding to existing development, 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 have revised the FIRM to modify the elevations,
floodplain and floodway boundary delineations, and zone designations of a
flood having a 1-percent probability of being equaled or exceeded in any
given year (base flood) along Sand Creek West Fork from just downstream of
Galley Road to approximately 850 feet upstream of Murray Boulevard. The base
(lOO-year) flood elevations (BFEs) increase by a maximum of 1 foot from
approximately 300 feet upstream of Galley Road to approximately 250 feet
downstream of Murray Boulevard, and the BFEs decrease by a maximum of 5 feet
from approximately 250 feet downstream to approximately 850 feet upstream of
Murray Boulevard. In his July 8 letter, Mr. Bunting stated that the BFE
increases occur within a drainage euement that is owned by the City of