FLOOD09307

• Designation Number: 238
• County: El Paso
• Community: Fountain
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Fountain, El Paso County, Colorado
• Date: 12/1/1984
• Designation Date: 5/1/1985
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

C. A. Denney - Commissioner Dlsl. 1
Robert Gerler - Commissioner Dlsl. 2
Robert Bausarman - Commissioner Dlsl. 3
Raxford L. Mltchall - County Attorney
Barry Shloshlta - Administrative Assistant

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March 12, 1985

Office of the Commissioners

Mr. Larry F. Lang, P.E.'
Ch~ef Flood Control and Floodplain Management
Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

Re: Designation and Approval of the Flood Insurance Study and Flood
Insurance Rate Maps for the Unincorporated Portions of Otero County,
Colorado

Dear Mr. Lang:

In an effort to regulate various land uses within flood prone areas of
our County, whereby public hazard and property damage may be reduced or
avoided in the future, the County of Otero hereby requests the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the Flood Insurance Study and
Flood Insurance Rate Maps, Otero County, CoJorado, Unincorporated Areas,
developed by the Division of Natural and Technological Hazards, a Division
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the Authority of the
National Flood Insurance Act. With this approval Otero County will include
the aforementioned report and its provisions in our Flood Management Program.
Inclusion of this Study and Rate Maps is a portion of the requirements set
forth by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for conversion of the unin-
corporated areas of Otero County from the Emergency Phase of the National
Flood Insurance Program to the Regular Phase of the National Flood Insurance
Program. The information and data. in the Federal Insurance Study and on the
Rate Maps was derived from two previous reports done within Otero County.
These reports are entitled Special Flood Hazard Information, Arkansas River,
Anderson & King Arroyos, La Junta, Otero County, Colorado, prepared by the
Department of the Army, Albuquerque District, Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, .dated August 1977 and 'the other entitled, Floodpl mn Information
Report'- Arkansas River, Timpas Creek, Otero County Colorado prepared by MSM
Consultants, Incorporated, dated August 1981. Both reports were previously
accepted by the Colorado Water Conservation Board and have been implemented
in our current Floodplain Managment Program.

Please accept our sincere appreciation and gratitude for the Colorado
Water Conservation Board's cooperation and assistance.

P.O. Box 511, La Junta, CO 81050 . [phone]