FLOOD10875 ‎(2)‎

• County: Garfield
• Community: Rifle
• Stream Name: Rifle Creek
• Title: LOMR - Affected Panel 1352 D, 1352 - Case No. 02-08-123P
• Date: 12/4/2002
• Prepared For: Rifle
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

Federal Emergency Management Agency
Washington, D.C. 20472

CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

IN REPLY REFER TO:
Case No.: 02-08-123P

The Honorable Keith Lambert
Mayor, City of Rifle
202 Railroad Avenue
Rifle, CO 81650

Community: City of Rifle, CO
Community No.: 085078
FIRM Panel Affected: 1352 D
FBFM Panel Affected: 1352
Effective Date of 0 E CO" 2002
This Revision: .,

102-D-A

Dear Mayor Lambert:

This responds to a request that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) revise the effective
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) and Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM) for your
community in accordance with Part 65 of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) regulations.
In a letter dated January 11,2002, ,P.E., Project Manager, High Country
Engineering, Inc., requested that FEMA revise the FIRM and FBFM to show the effects of
channelization and realignment of Rifle Creek Splitflow from its confluence with Rifle Creek to just
downstream of County Road 291 (CR291). This request follows up on a Conditional Letter of Map
Revision issued on June 6, 1996.

All data required to complete our review of this request were submitted with letters from .f

We have completed our review of the submitted data and the flood data shown on the effective FIRM
and FBFM and in the effective Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report. We have revised the FIRM, FBFM,
and FIS report to modify the elevations and floodplain and floodway boundary delineations of the flood
having a I-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year (base flood) along Rifle Creek
Splitflow from its confluence with Rifle Creek to just downstream ofCR291. As a result of the
modifications, the Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) for Rifle Creek Splitflow and the widths ofthe Special
Flood Hazard Area (SFHA), the area that would be inundated by the base flood, and the regulatory
floodway decreased. The modifications are shown on the enclosed annotated copies of FIRM
Panel 1352 D, FBFM Panel 1352, Profile Panels lOP and 12P, and affected portions of the Floodway
Data Table. This Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) hereby revises the above-referenced panels of the
effective FIRM and FBFM and the affected portions of the FIS report, all dated January 3, 1986, as
previously revised by a LOMR issued on May 31, 1996 (Case No. 96-08-17IP).

This LOMR does not affect the BFEs or floodplain or floodway boundary delineations in the
unincorporated areas of Garfield County, but it modifies the location of the confluence of Rifle Creek
Splitflow with the main channel of Rifle Creek. For information purposes, we are providing a copy of
this LOMR to Garfield County.