FLOOD00443

• Designation Number: 36
• County: El Paso
• Community: Colorado Springs
• Title: Resolution - FPR 36 - Flood Hazard Analysis - Update - Sand Creek & Tributaries
• Date: 12/1/1971
• Designation Date: 12/1/1974
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
102 ColUmbine Building'
1845 Sherma~ Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

December 4, 1974

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, the United States Soil Conservation Service under
date of July, 1973, issued a flood in!ormation report under the title
of "Flood Hazard Analyses, Sand Creek, City of Colorado Springs and
El Paso County, Colorado; I and

WHEREAS, under date of Oct~ber 31, 1973, the Colorado Water
Conservation Board by resolution appr~ved and designated as flood
hazard areeas those areas in the repo~t described as being subject to
inundation as the result of an intermediate regional flood (100 year);
and

WHEREAS, since the issuance of said report and its approval
by the Colorado Water Conservation B08rd certain channel improvements
have taken place on tributaries of said Sand Creek which change the
hydraulic characteristics of the chanuel and therefore change the area
)which would be inundated by an intermediate regional flood; and

WHEREAS, a new report on certain tributaries of Sand Creek
has been prepared by Lovejoy and Williams, Inc., a consulting engineering
firm, under date of June, 1974, which report takes into consideration
the changes in the channel of certain portions of the Sand Creek
tributaries; and

WHEREAS, the County of El PasO has requested the Colorado
Water conservation Board to revise the original flood hazard desig-
nation made by the Board under date of October 31, 1973, in accordance
with the report of Lovejoy and Williams, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed the revised
floodplain information, has consulted with the United States Soil
Conservation Service, and concurs witb the revised floodplain informa-
tion report and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conserva-
tion Board that said Board approve a revision of the flood hazard
information heretofore made on Sand Creek, insofar as such previous
,~te_signation;_pertains to ,portions of -the -West-Fork-ana -tne-MIlIdle--Fork
of Sand Creek;

NO"Vl, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado, this
4th day of December, 1974, that it does hereby rescind and revise that
portion of the resolution adopted on october 31, 1973, describing
certain flood hazard areas along Sand Creek in El Paso County insofar