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<br />Starts Flood Insurance Study of
<br />Jefferson County and Palmer Lake,
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<br />United States Department 0
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<br />GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
<br />Denver Federal Center
<br />Denver, Colorado 80225
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<br />April 28, 1975
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<br />INfORMATION FOR THE PRESS
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<br />SUBJ leGT:
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<br />U.S. Geological Survey
<br />Unincorporated Area of
<br />Colorado
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<br />.RELBASE DATE:. Imnlediate1y
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<br />fOR AfJpl'flONAL INFOlU1ATION CONTAC'f:
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<br />J. E. Biesecker
<br />Colorado District, . Water Resources Division
<br />U.S. Geological Survey
<br />Bu.ild.ing 25 ,Denver Federal Center
<br />Lakewood, Colorado 80225
<br />Telephone: 234-3B15
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<br />,l)ljrillK the next 20 months the U. S. . Geological Survey will conduct a '
<br />'Flood Insurance Study of two ar.:as in. Co10rado--the unincorporated are.a
<br />...'dfJef.f~i:son County and the community of Palmer Lake.
<br />
<br />Tl\is.study is being funded by the Federal Insurance Administration.(FIA)
<br />," 'qftl\e U. S. Department of Housing .and Urban Development under authority
<br />. of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (P.L. 90-448),
<br />'i 1'jnd the Flood Dis.aster Protection Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-234),
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<br />,ThE! purpose of this study is to examine and eva1ua~e the flood hazard
<br />,.ilreasin the communities which ar"",deve1oped or which are likely to be
<br />!,qeveli:Jped and to determine flood eievations for those areas. Flood
<br />'<jlevations will be used by local community officials to carry out
<br />.theflood-plain management objectives of the National Flood Insurance
<br />'Program. They will also be used as the basis for determining the
<br />appropriate flood insurance premium rat.:s applicable for new buildings
<br />..and their. contents, as well as detennining the rates to be used for the
<br />,'second layer of. insurance on existing buildings and. contents.
<br />
<br />In Jefferson County about 336 miles of stream channels will be studied
<br />by approximate or detailed methods. Approximate flood plain boundaries
<br />. of the 100-year flood will be delineat.ed on topographic maps for 200 miles
<br />,of channels through the use of readily available information on past
<br />; floods and field reconnaissance. These maps, which will show approxi-
<br />:. mate flo.od-hazard areas, will be sufficient for FIA' s "emergency flood
<br />'insurance program," but will be inadequate for local use in adopting
<br />. land-use controls in flood plain areas.
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<br />(Conttnued)
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