FLOOD00462

• Designation Number: 397
• County: Las Animas
• Community: Trinidad
• Title: Resolution - FPR 95-397 - FIS - Trinidad, CO, Las Animas County
• Date: 1/1/1978
• Designation Date: 3/1/1995
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, Resolution No. 354.16 did not rescind any portion of Resolution No. 43; and

WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency completed a floodplain information e
map entitled "Flood Insurance Rate Map, Las Animas County, Colorado, Unincorporated Areas" on
April 3, 1984; and

WHEREAS, said map includes detailed floodplain information for stream reaches within the
unincorporated portions of Las Animas County, as they were on April 3, 1984, only; and

and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board has not designated and approved said map;

WHEREAS, a new detailed floodplain map entitled "Flood Insurance Rate Map, City of
Trinidad, Colorado, Las Animas County", dated April 3, 1984, was prepared by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency; and

WHEREAS, said new map contains detailed floodplain delineations for the following streams,
within the corporate limits of the City of Trinidad, as they were on April 3, 1984, only:

Purgatoire River,
Prospect Canyon,
Pinon Canyon,
Portland A venue Canyon, and
Fishers Peak Arroyo;

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and

WHEREAS, said new map revised, on the basis of corrections to the corporate limits of the City
of Trinidad and annexations to the City of Trinidad only, the detailed floodplain delineations shown on
the Flood Insurance Rate Map included in Resolution No. 354.16; and

WHEREAS, the detailed floodplain delineations included on said new map for the City of
Trinidad and on said undesignated map for unincorporated Las Animas County were prepared directly
from the detailed floodplain information contained in Resolutions Nos. 88 and 94-354.16, with
modifications to the corporate limits of the City of Trinidad only, and are therefore consistent with
Resolutions Nos. 88 and 94-354.16 with regard to water surface elevations; and

WHEREAS, the detailed floodplain delineation shown on said new map for the City of Trinidad
is entirely consistent with the detailed floodplain delineation shown on the undesignated Flood Insurance
Rate Map for unincorporated Las Animas County, dated April 3, 1984; and

WHEREAS, the City of Trinidad, Colorado, has requested the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth on the aforesaid new map; 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

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