Board Meeting 01/30/1980

• Board Meeting Date: 1/30/1980
• Description: Minutes, Agenda, Memorandums January 30, 1980
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Floodplain
Resol. No. 149
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
January 30, 1980
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers , Omaha
District, completed a floodplain information report entitled "Flood
Plain Information, Volume V, Denver Metropolitan Region, Colorado, "
dated November, 1970, which included Sanderson Gulch and North Sand-
erson Gulch; and
WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board as requested
by the Denver Regional Council of Governments , by Resolution Number
11, adopted January 12, 1971, approved and designated the floodplains
described in said report; and
WHEREAS, Frasier and Gingery, Inc. , revised the November
1970 United States Army Corps of Engineers report insofar as it
pertained to Sanderson Gulch and North Sanderson Gulch; and
WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board as requested
by the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District rescinded the original
study and by Resolution Number 37, adopted December 4, 1974, approved
and designated the floodplains described in the Frasier and Gingery,
Inc. , study; and
WHEREAS, a new report entitled "Flood Hazard Area Delineation,
Sanderson Gulch and North Sanderson Gulch," dated August, 1979, has been
prepared by Gingery Associates, Inc. , at the request of the Urban
Drainage and Flood Control District, the City and County of Denver, and
the City of Lakewood; and
WHEREAS, said new report describes and outlines the flood-
plain data and information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels
or basins of the study area after completion of certain channel improve-
ments on Sanderson Gulch and North Sanderson Gulch; and
WHEREAS, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District has
requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve
the floodplain areas as set forth in the aforesaid report; and
WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106 (1) , Colorado Revised Statutes 1973,
requires the Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in the preven-
tion of floods and flood damages therefrom; and
WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, provide that such legislative bodies of local jurisdictions
may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any storm or