BIG CICERO CREEK FLOOD CONTROL STUDY
FINAL REPORT

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2.0 DATA COLLECTION

Data used in this study was collected from the Joint Drainage Board, Tipton County and Hamilton County staff, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), United States Geological Survey (USGS), Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), EarthData, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  Each data source is listed below, along with the data obtained from that source:

 

Source

 

Data Provided

Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR)
  • Regulatory hydraulic model (HEC-2)
  • Coordinated Discharge Graph titled Big Cicero Creek
  • Coordinated Point Discharges at Arcadia
  • Historic Profile for Big Cicero Creek, June 1957 and January 1962 floods
  • B17B analysis of USGS gage records through 2003

 

City of Tipton, Indiana Flood Insurance Study (FIS) dated March 5, 1996

 
  • Flood profiles
  • Flood Insurance Rate Maps
  • Floodway Data Tables, and other information

Tipton County Surveyor
  • Tipton county watershed map (1994)
  • Various flood photos
  • Railroad Right-of-Way maps showing culverts through the RR bed
  • Regulated drain reconstruction plans for Cox, Dixon, and Crum Ditch (1/2001, 3/1984)
  • Bridge inventory information for the structures inventoried over Big Cicero Creek (most recent inventory as of May, 2006)

 

Hamilton County Surveyor
  • Channel and some bridge deck survey information (February, 2005)

 

USGS

  • Peak flow data at area gages
  • Daily Mean Discharges at Big Cicero Ck at/near Arcadia gage
  • Digital 10’ Contour interval quad mapping for watershed portions of Tipton, Clinton, and Boone Counties
  • 1999 National Land Cover Dataset

 

EarthData
  • Digital 2’ contour interval mapping for a 4000’ wide corridor of the study reach of the creek (developed as part of the study and received May, 2006)

 

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) SSURGO
  • Digital Soils data Boone County (12/6/05) Clinton County (8/1/05) Hamilton County (12/22/01) Tipton County (12/6/05)

 

National Climatic Data Center
  • Historic hourly rainfall for area gages

 

 

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