FLOOD01109

• Designation Number: 99
• County: Jefferson
• Community: Lakewood
• Title: Resolution - FPR 99 - FHAD - South Lakewood Gulch, Lakewood, CO
• Date: 7/1/1977
• Designation Date: 3/1/1978
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

Floodplain
Resol. No. 99

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COLORADO WATER CO~SERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Co1o~ado 80203

March 16, 1978

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WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 'Omaha
District, completed in October, 1968, a Floodplain Information,Report
entitled "Flood Plain Information, Volume IV, Denver Metropolitan
Region, Colorado," which includes South Lakewood Gulch; and

, -WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested
by the Denver Regional Council of Governments, by resolution adopted
May 7, 1969, approved and designated the floodplains described in
said report; and

WHEREAS; a new report entitled "Flood Hazard Area,:pe1ineation,
, South Lakewood Gulch, City of LakeYlood, Colorado," dated July, 1977,
has been prepared by Wright-McLaughlin Engineers, at the request of
the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District and the City of Lakewood,
which report updates and revises the previous information for South
'Lakewood Gulch as prepared by the Corps of Engineers; and

WHEREAS, said report describes and outlines the floodplain
data and information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels or
basins of the study area; and

WHEREAS, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District has
requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate'and
approve the floodplain areas asset forth in the aforesaid report; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised Statutes
1973, requires the Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in the
prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and '

WHEREAS, Sections ~1-23-20l and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, provide that such legislative bodies of local juris-
dictions 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
_ _19_73,_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;
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WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said revised
report for South Lakewood Gulch and does hereby recommend to the