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<br />FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY <br /> <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />1.1 Purpose of Study <br /> <br />This Flood Insurance Study investigates the existence and severity <br />of flood hazards in the Town of Green Mountain Falls, El Paso <br />and Teller Counties, Colorado, and aids in the administration <br />of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster <br />Protection Act of 1973. This study will be used to convert the <br />Town of Green Mountain Falls to the regular program of flood insurance <br />by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Local and <br />regional planners will use this study in their efforts to promote <br />sound flood plain management. <br /> <br />This Flood Insurance Study was prepared by compiling existing <br />hydrologic and hydraulic technical and scientific data prepared <br />by other organization(s) originally for purposes other than the <br />National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The data were identified <br />as the best available at the time of compilation of this Flood <br />Insurance Study and should depict the general conditions of the <br />flooding sources with relative accuracy. FEMA performed a cursory <br />review and accepted the data as valid for purposes of this Flood <br />Insurance Study and the NFIP. However, if better information <br />is known to exist or has been developed since the date of this <br />report, the information should be immediately forwarded to the <br />Natural and Technological Hazards Division, FEMA, Building 710, <br />Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado 80225 for consideration <br />for revision of this study. <br /> <br />In some States or communities, flood plain management criteria <br />or regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive <br />than those on which this federally supported study is based. <br />These criteria take precedence over the minimum Federal criteria <br />for purposes of regulating development in the flood plain, as <br />set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 44 CFR, 60.3(c). <br />In such cases, however, it shall be understood that the State <br />(or other jurisdictional agency) shall be able to explain these <br />requirements and criteria. <br /> <br />1.2 Authority and Acknowledgments <br /> <br />The sources of authority for this Flood Insurance Study are the <br />National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection <br />Act of 1973. <br /> <br />The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for this study were performed <br />by Camp Dresser and McKee, Inc., as reported in Flood Insurance <br />Study, El Paso County, Colorado (Unincorporated Areas) (Reference 1). <br /> <br />;,. <br />