BOARD00451

• Board Meeting Date: 1/31/1979
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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APPENDIX H

Floodplain
Resol. No. 131

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

January 31, 1979

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WHEREAS, a report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Town
of Wiggins, Colorado," which includes floOdplain information and
data for Kiowa Creek, dated August, 1978, has been prepared by
Gingery Associates, Inc., under contract with the Federal Insurance
Administration; and

WHEREAS, said report describes and outlines the floodplain
data and information for the storm and flo~dwater runoff channels
Or basins of the stuq.y area;" and " ,-'
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WHEREAS, the Town of Wiggins 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 prevention 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 floodwater runoff channel or basin only after
designation and approval by the Colorado Water Conservation Board;
and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1) (c), Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, directs the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins
and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of
local jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said report
and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
that the Board designate and approve as floodplain areas those areas
inundated by a 100-year flood (intermediate regional flood) as
described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said
report;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado,
this 31st day of January, 1979, that it does hereby designate and
approve as floodplain areas those areas described as being inundated
by a 100-year flood as described by the floodwater surface eleva-
tions and profiles in said report; and

APPENDIX H