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Between Lehigh Street and Broadway, the floodplain generally follows the exterior boundaries of Table Mesa Drive. The floodplain widens at cross streets with Table Mesa. This is caused by the culverts built for those streets. As the creek approaches Broadway, the floodplain becomes wider. Downstream from Gillaspie Drive, the floodplain extends eastward as the terrain starts to flatten out. Commercial development also increases in this area. The floodplain crosses approximately 450 feet of Broadway. Again damages are not heavy, as only 2 buildings are within the floodplain. south of Arapahoe Road. The floodplain is a fairly uniform 75 feet in width for 750 feet downstream of Mohawk Drive. As the stream approaches Foothills Parkway and the Skunk Creek floodplain, the Bear Creek floodplain widens on the west side of the creek. On the east side of the creek, the floodplain extends to within 100 feet of Hancock Drive near Foothills Parkway. The flood profiles and flood- plain delineation immediately upstream of Arapahoe have been revised to reflect the installation of larger culverts by the Highway Department and overbank grading by a developer. North of Arapahoe Road to the creek's confluence with Boulder Creek, a broad area is flooded to approximately 1 foot of depth. The widest area of the floodplain extends approximately 200 feet on the east side of the creek. Property damage is light in this downstream portion of the creek, as only 3 small buildings are within the floodplain. Downstream from Broadway, the wide floodplain intersects Eastman Avenue on the west side of the stream. Eastman conveys its water to 35th Street, and 35th Street carries the water down to Martin Drive. Between Martin Drive and Highway 36, a continuous floodplain boundary lies to the east of the creek. This boundary is 250 feet east of the creek at Martin Drive. It follows along the western half of Chase Circle and returns very close to the creek at Moorhead Avenue. The floodplain on the west side of the creek between Martin Drive and Highway 36 is not continuous. Three-fourths of the area west of the creek and between Martin and Berkeley Avenue is not flooded. Immediately downstream from this area, a residential area which is built around Berkeley Avenue is flooded. Twenty homes are effected by the floodplain in this area. Skunk Creek The floodplain upstream from the Kings Gulch confluence with Skunk Creek ranges from narrow and confined in steep channel banks to wide where overland shallow flooding occurs within Green Mountain Cemetery. Street flooding occurs near the upstream study limit. Downstream of Highway 36 broad, shallow flooding occurs to Baseline Road. The floodplain approaches 1300 feet in width at its widest point. Only a commercial building is located within the floodplain near Baseline Road. North of Baseline Road, the floodplain becomes narrow as the creek's channel is larger and street flow occurs along Gilpin Drive. The floodplain maintains a fairly uniform width of about 200 feet as it enters Green Mountain Cemetery. However, about halfway through the cemetery, the land slopes off to the north. This results in shallow overland flooding which flows northward from the cemetery. Some of the flow returns to the floodplain while the rest of the flow enters Kings Avenue east of 21st Street. North of the Kings Gulch confluence with Skunk Creek, the floodplain is approximately 1700 feet wide. This width is maintained as the floodplain crosses Broadway. Property damages are moderately heavy in this area as 27 buildings are flooded. The floodplain is narrow along the creek bed and Gilpin Drive, leaving most of the area between the creek and the street dry. Floodwaters from Gilpin Drive flow onto Inca Parkway and then onto Mohawk Drive. A large amount of property damage occurs as a result of this flooding pattern. Twenty-two residential buildings incur shallow flooding. Between Broadway and 30th Streets, the floodplain ranges from 1700 feet to 100 feet. The floodplain is restricted as it passes through large culverts, notably, the culverts at U.S. 36 and Baseline Road. Some street flow occurs down 29th Street to Bixby. All of the water returns to the channel. Property damage remains moderately heavy upstream of U.S. 36, but becomes light downstream of U.S. 36. From 30th Street where the floodplain is 500 feet wide, to Colorado Avenue where the floodplain is 2000 feet wide, a large amount of property damage From Mohawk Drive to the creek's confluence with Boulder Creek, the floodplain ranges from being narrow to very extensive. The width of the floodplain is influenced by Skunk Creek, which flows into Bear Creek approximately 530 feet 26