FLOOD00012

• Designation Number: 328
• County: Adams
• Community: Commerce City
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Commerce City, Colorado, Adams County
• Date: 9/1/1988
• Designation Date: 9/1/1992
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

WHEREAS, said new report provides detailed information that reflects the revised _.
hydraulic analysis and new topographic information contained in those portions of the ..
floodplain reports previously designated by Resolutions, No. 71, No. 84, and No. 251,
respectively, relating to the reach of the South Platte River extending from the southern
corporate boundary limit of Commerce City downstream to the northern corporate boundary
limit of Commerce City (as of September 30, 1988) for a distance of approximately 3 miles
and relating to the reach of Sand Creek extending from the southern corporate boundary
limit of Commerce City (as of September 30, 1988) to its confluence with the South Platte
River for a distance of approximately 3.2 miles; and

WHEREAS, Commerce City, Colorado has requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in the aforesaid new
report; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(C), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages
therefrom; and .

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide
that 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, Section37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado
Water Conservation to designate and approve storms or floodwaters runoff channels or
basins and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions;
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WHEREAS, the information in said new report heretofore described in this
resolution meets all of the requirements for detailed floodplain information listed under the
Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of
Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board in regular meeting assembled in Grand Junction, Colorado, this 15th day of
September, 1992, that it does hereby designate and approve as detailed floodplain
information the 100-year floodplains as described by the floodwater surface elevations and
profiles in said new report, dated September 30, 1988, heretofore described in this
resolution, and rescinds the described study reaches for the South Platte River and Sand
Creek as described in this resolution; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is directed to send
a certified copy of this resolution to the Board of County Commissioners of Adams County;

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