FLOOD01410

• Designation Number: 355
• County: Weld
• Community: Greeley
• Title: Resolution - FPR 94-355 - Floodplain and Floodway Analysis
• Date: 1/1/1994
• Designation Date: 3/1/1994
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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FPR 94-355

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

March 9, 1994

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, has completed for the
Larimer. Weld Regional Planning Commission a floodplain information report entitled "Flood Plain
Information Report, Cache La Poudre River, Colorado, Volume II, Greeley, Weld County", dated
March, 1974: and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested by the City of Greeley
and the County of Weld, by Resolution No. 41, adopted on February 26, 1975, approved and
designated the floodplains described in said report; and

WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency completed a floodplain
information report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, City of Greeley, Colorado," dated January 1979
(not designated); and

WHEREAS, a new report entitled "City of Greeley, Cache La Poudre River, Floodplain
and Floodway analysis ", dated January 20,1994, which is a REQUEST FOR LEITER OF MAP
REVISION , has been prepared by Brown and Caldwell Consultants under contract to the City
of Greeley's Water and Sewer Department; and

WHEREAS, said new report includes detailed floodplain information for that portion of
the Cache La Poudre River from a point 1,000 feet upstream of the 5th Street bridge thence
downstream to Ash Avenue (study reach) ; and

WHEREAS, the information contained in said new report revises, on the basis of
completed flood control improvements (bridges) and a new hydraulic analysis, the detailed
information contained in Resolution No. 41 for the said reach of the Cache La Poudre River only;
and

WHEREAS, the City of Greeley, Colorado, has requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in the aforesaid new report;
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