FLOOD01278

• Designation Number: 295
• County: Boulder
• Community: Boulder
• Title: Letter of Map Revision - Request - Involving Fill, Bear Canyon Creek, CU Boulder Research Park, Boulder, Colorado
• Date: 12/1/1988
• Designation Date: 5/1/1989
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

FPR 295

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
721 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

May 11, 1989

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WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood
Hazard Area Delineation, Boulder and Adjacent County
Dra inageways, " da ted May. 1987, was prepared by .Greenhorne and
0' Mara, Inc., at the request of the City of Boulder, the Board
of County Commissioners of Boulder county, and the Urban
Drainage and Flood Control District; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested
by the ci ty of Boulder, Boulder County, and the Urban Dra inage
and Flood Control District, by Resolution No, 281 adopted
October 1, 1987, approved and designated the floodplains
described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a new report entitled "Request for Letter of Map
Revision, Bear Canyon Creek," dated November, 1988, has been
prepared by Love & Associates, Inc" at the request of the
University of COlorado at Boulder; and

WHEREAS,
information"
study reach;

said new report
for the storm and
and

includes "detailed
floodwater runoff

floodplain
channels of

WHEREAS, the City of Boulder. Colorado, has requested the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve the
floodplain areas as set forth in the aforesaid new report: and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-l06(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 such 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

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