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<br />fl~d; areas that are protected from <br />the .100- or 500-year floods by dike, <br />levee, or other local water-control <br />structure; areas subject to certain <br />types of 100-year shallow flooding where <br />depths are less than 1.0 foot; and areas <br />subject to 100-year flooding from sources <br />with drainage areas less than 1 square <br />mile. Zone B is not subdivided. <br /> <br />Zone C: <br /> <br />Areas of minimal flood hazard; not sub- <br />divided. <br /> <br />5.4 Flood Insurance Rate Map Descr~ption <br /> <br />The Flood Insurance Rate Map fOr Green Mountain Falls is, for <br />insurance purposes, the principal product of the Flood Insurance <br />Study. This map contains the official delineation of flood insur- <br />ance zones and base flood elevations. Base flood elevation lines <br />show the locations of the expected whole-foot water-surface eleva- <br />tion of the base (lOO-year) flood. The base flood elevations and <br />zone numbers are used by insurance agents, in conjunction with <br />structure elevations and characteristics, to assign actuarial <br />insurance rates to structures and contents insured under the NFIP. <br /> <br />6.0 OTHER STUDIES <br /> <br />A Flood Insurance Study is being prepared for the unincorporated areas <br />of El Paso County (Reference 1). Hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for <br />Fountain Creek that were determined for the county study were used directly <br />for this study. Therefore, the studies are in agreement. <br /> <br />Hydrologic data from a 1976 COE publication, Report on Hydrologic Investi- <br />gations, Flood Insurance Study, Colotado Springs and El Paso County <br />(Reference 4), was used for Fountain!Creek in this study; therefore, <br />this study agrees with that report. <br /> <br />A Flood Hazard Boundary Map has been:prepared for the Town of Green <br />Mountain Falls (Reference 9). Flood plain boundaries for Crystal and <br />Catamount Creeks narrowed to widths Of less than 200 feet, and were there- <br />fore designated as areas of minimal flood hazard. Flood boundaries on <br />Fountain Creek determined for this Flood Insurance Study supersede those <br />of the Flood Hazard Boundary Map. <br /> <br />A Flood Hazard Boundary Map has been'prepared for the unincorporated <br />areas of Teller County (Reference 10) and is in general agreement with <br />this Flood Insurance Study. <br /> <br />14 <br />