BOARD00226

• Board Meeting Date: 4/1/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

RES 0 L U T ~ 0 ~

WHEREAS, during the past several years extensive flood

damages have occurred along the channel of the South Platte River

from Denver to Fort Morgan, Colorado; and

WHEREAS. as the result of continuing metropolitan growth

there is a probability that such flood damages will occur with

more frequency in the future; and

WHEREAS, it appears imperative for the future welfare

and safety of the citizens of Colorado that adequate flood control

protection be provided along the channel of the South Platte River

in colorado; and

WHEREAS, by the Flood Control Act of 1950 a project was

authorized to improve the channel of the South Platte 9.iver from

Denver to Fort Morgan for flood control protection; and

WHEREAS, the purposes of the 1950 Flood Control Act have

not been carried out through lack of past appreciation by the State

of Colorado and its residents of the serious flood threat which is

now posed by the accumulation of flood waters in the South Platte

River;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Con-

servation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado,

this lst day of April, 1970, that the Corps of Engineers, u. S. Army~

be requested to expedite the necessary action to carry out the pur-

poses of the Flood Control Act of 1950 as said act pertains to the

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