FLOOD00911

• Designation Number: 410
• County: Cheyenne
• Community: Kit Carson
• Title: Floodplain Information Report - Flood Hazard Boundary Map - Kit Carson, Colorado
• Date: 2/1/1996
• Designation Date: 3/1/1996
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board is taking this action under the
provisions set forth in 2 CCR 408-1 Rule 9.D.2. (Board Initiative) and Kit Carson has been
notified and their comments have been considered in this resolution; 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, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado
Water Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or
basins and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the information in said new report for Wild Horse Creek meets all of the
requirements for approximate 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);

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board has determined that the hydrologic
methodology developed in the Guidelines for Determining 100-Year Flood Flows for
Approximate Floodplains is appropriate for designation and approval of approximate floodplain
information and for use in simple floodplain analyses for development such as open space,
agriculture, farm bridges, barns and individual residential structures, but that the methodology is
not appropriate for development involving residential subdivisions greater than 50 lots or
occurring on sites greater than 5 acres, commercial construction, industrial construction,
construction of public transportation facilities or construction of flood control facilities; and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in
regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado, this 13th day of March, 1996, that it does hereby
designate and approve as storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins those areas described by
approximate floodplain information in said new report, dated February 8, 1996, including the
floodplain map dated December 13, 1974 which was incorporated into said new report, for Wild
Horse Creek within the corporate limits of the Town of Kit Carson as of December 13, 1974,
which meets the criteria for the regression equation for Arkansas River Basin Subregion Ark-I,
Ql00 = 1,564.98 * A 0.539 as set forth in the Guidelines for Determining 100- Year Flood Flows
for Approximate Floodplains, contingent upon the understanding that the Town of Kit Carson
will regulate the storm and floodwater runoff channels (approximate floodplains) on a case-by-
case basis subject to a detailed hydrologic and hydraulic analysis performed by a professional
engineer, in accordance with the determinations of the Colorado Water Conservation Board
regarding the applicability of the Guidelines for Determining 100-Year Flood Flows for

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