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<br />WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County
<br />has requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate
<br />and approve the floodplain and floodprone areas as set forth in
<br />the aforesaid report, and
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<br />WHEREAS, the united States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha
<br />District, has completed a floodplain information report entitled
<br />"Floodplain Information, Cherry Creek, Cherry Creek Lake Through
<br />Franktown, Colorado," dated October, '1976; and
<br />
<br />WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Fiood
<br />Hazard Area Delineation, Happy Canyon Creek, Badger Gulch, Newlin
<br />Gulch, Baldwin Gulch, Sulphur Gulch, and Tallman Gulch," dated
<br />November, 1977, was completed by Howard Needles Tammen & Bergen~
<br />doff at the request of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control .
<br />District, Douglas County, and Arapahoe County; and
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<br />WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board by Resolution
<br />No. 68 adopted on July 27,1977, and Resolution No. 96 adopted
<br />on January 19, 1978, respectively, approved and designated the
<br />floodplains described in the aforesaid reports; and
<br />
<br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised Statutes
<br />1973, requires the Colorado. Water Conservation Board to assist
<br />in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom, and
<br />
<br />WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
<br />Statutes.1973, provide that such legislative bodies Of . local
<br />jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on
<br />or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only
<br />after designation and approval by the Colorado Water Conserva-
<br />tion Board; and
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<br />WHEREAS, Douglas County officials have stated that they
<br />will regulate the storm and floodwater runoff channels (Zone A)
<br />on a case-by-case basis subject to a detailed hydrologic and
<br />hydraulic analysis by a professional engineer; and
<br />
<br />vlliEREAS, Section 37-60-106 (1) (c), Colorado Revised Statutes
<br />1973, directs the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate
<br />and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins and
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<br />local jurisdictions; and
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<br />WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed the flood in-
<br />surance.study and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water
<br />Conservation Board that the BOard designate and approve as flood-
<br />plain areas those areas inundated by a lOO-year flood .(intermediate
<br />regional flood) as described by the floodwater surface elevations
<br />and profiles in said report anq designate and approve as storm
<br />or floodwater runoff channels Or basins those areas as delineated
<br />by Zone A in said report.
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