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<br />WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board is taking this action under the provisions <br />set forth in 2 CCR 408-1 Rule 9.0.2. (Board Initiative) and Rye has been notified and their <br />comments have been considered in this resolution; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(l)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; .and. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that <br />legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along <br />any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-l06(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins and to <br />make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the information in said new report for Greenhorn Creek meets all of the <br />requirements for approximate floodplain .information listed under the Board's "Rules and <br />Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff <br />Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board has detennined that the hydrologic <br />methodology developed in the Guidelines for Determining 10fJ..Year Flood Flows for <br />Approximate Floodplains is appropriate for designation and approval of approximate floodplain <br />information and for use in simple floodplain analyses for development such as open space, <br />agriculture, farm bridges, barns and individual residential structures, but that the methodology is not <br />appropriate for development involving residential subdivisions greater than 50 lots or occurring on <br />sites greater than 5 acres, commercial construction, industrial construction, construction of public <br />transportation facilities or construction of flood control facilities; and <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in <br />regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado,oIDis 13th day of March, 1996, that it does hereby <br />designate and approve as storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins those areas described by <br />approximate floodplain information in said new report, dated February 8, 1996, including the <br />floodplain map dated July 18, 1975 which was incorporated into said new report, for Greenhorn <br />Creek within the corporate limits of the Town of Rye as of July 18, 1975, which meets the criteria <br />for the regression equation for Arkansas River Basin Subregion Ark-3, QUIO = 1,089.27 * A 0.635 as <br />set forth in the Guidelines for Determining 100- Year Flood Flows for Approximate Floodplains, <br />contingent upon the understanding that the Town of Rye will regulate the storm and floodwater <br />runoff channels (approximate floodplains) on a case-by-case basis subject to a detailed hydrologic <br />and hydraulic analysis performed by a professional engineer, in accordance with the determinations <br />of the Colorado Water Conservation Board regarding the applicability of the Guidelines for <br />Determining 100-Year Flood Flowsfor Approximate Floodplains; and <br /> <br />2 <br />