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South Fork Lake Creek South WiJIow Creek St. Kevin Gulch Temple Gulch Tennessee Creek Unnamed Tributary to the Arkansas River Unnamed Tributary to California Gulch Unnamed Tributaries to North WiJIow Creek (3) West Branch of Bear Creek West Tennessee Creek WiJIow Creek Blue Lake Law Ponds Lily Pond Mountain Lake Mt. Massive Lakes Native Lake Rainbow Lake Slide Lake Timberline Lake Turquoise Lake Twin Lakes Reservoir Unnamed Ponds and Depressions (several) West Tennessee Lakes Windsor Lake; and WHEREAS, the hydrology information for the approximate floodplains for streams in said new report with included mapping has been estimated in accordance with the Guidelines for Determining lOO-Year Flood Flows for Approximate Floodplains; and WHEREAS, the lOO-year flow for said streams, which have drainage areas greater than or equal to 4 square miles and less than or equal to 330 square miles, is estimated by utilizing the regression equation for Arkansas River Basin Subregion 6, Ql00 = 45.98 * (A)O.717, where Ql00 is the lOO-year peak flow in cubic feet per second and A is the upstream (contributing) drainage area in square miles; and WHEREAS, a procedure for determining hydrology information in Lake County for approximate floodplains of streams with drainage areas less than 4 square miles or greater than 330 square miles, lakes, ponds, and local drainage areas has not been established by the Guidelines for Determining IOO-year Flows for Approximate Floodplains; and WHEREAS, the streams with drainage areas less than 4 square miles or greater than 330 square miles, lakes, ponds, and local drainage areas may be designated as approximate floodplain infor1lliltion without a procedure for estimating lOO-year peak flows, as long as the local government understands and agrees that a detailed hydrologic and hydraulic study is required prior to any floodplain development; and 4