BOARD02139

• Board Meeting Date: 6/21/1974
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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APPENDIX A
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
102 Columbine Building
1845 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

June 21, 1974

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WHEREAS, Engineering Consultants, Inc., Denver,
Colorado, has completed for the Urban Drainage and Flood Control
District. a Water and Drainage at Niver Creek Phase B Report in
Adams County, Cities of Federal Heights and Thornton, Colorado,
dated February 1974; and

WHEREAS, said Report outlines and describes the flood
water runoff channels within the above described areas; and

WHEREAS, Article l49-l-11(4) , Colorado Revised Statutes
1963,. requires that the Colorado Water Conservation Board designate
and approve storm or flood water runoff channels and to make such
designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions;
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WHEREAS, Article 139-60-l, Colorado Revised Statutes
1963, provides that such cities, towns, incorporated areas and
local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for any storm
or flood water runoff channel only after designation and approval
by the Colorado Water Conservation Board; and

WHEREAS, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District
has requested the Colorado Water conservation Board to designate
and approve the flood hazard areas as set forth in the aforesaid
Report; and

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WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said Report
and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
that said Board designate and approve as flood hazard areas those
areas set forth in the Report as being subject to flooding by the
lOO-year flood under existing conditions.