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FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of Study This Flood Insurance Study investigates the existence and severity of flood hazards in the City of Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, and aids in the administration of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. This study will be used to convert the City of Golden to the regular program of flood insurance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Local and regional planners will use this study in their efforts to promote sound flood plain management. In some states or communities, flood plain management criteria or regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive than those on which these federally supported studies are based. These criteria take precedence over the minimum Federal criteria for purposes of regulating development in the flood plain, as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 44 CFR, 60.3. In such cases, however, it shall be understood that the State (or other jurisdictional agency) shall be able to explain these requirements and criteria. 1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments The source of authority for this Flood Insurance Study is the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended. Except as outlined below, the hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for this study were performed by PRC Engineering Consultants, Inc., for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under Contract No. H-4724. This work, which was completed in January 1982, covered all significant flooding sources affecting Golden. The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for Cressmans Gulch, Cressmans Gulch Old Channel, Tucker Gulch, Kenneys Run, East Fork Kenneys Run, West Fork Kenneys Run, West Fork Kenneys Run Tributary No. I, North Fork of West Fork Kenneys Run Tributary No. I, West Fork Kenneys Run Tributary No.2, and Deadman Gulch wele performed by Muller Engineering Company, Inc., as reported in Flood Hazard Area Delineation - Tucker Gulch/Kenneys Run (Reference 1). 1.3 Coordination Information was obtained from the City of Golden; the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District (UDFCD); the State Engineers Office;