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<br />/'7'/2- <br /> <br />FLOODPLAIN INFORMATION REPORT <br /> <br />Preface <br /> <br />Colorado River Mainstem <br />From Rifle to Utah-Colorado State Line <br /> <br />The Colorado Water Conservation Board has prepared a Floodplain Information Report for the <br />Colorado River mainstcm subbasin of the Upper Colorado River Basin. The Board has also <br />prepared similar reports for three other subbasins of the Upper Colorado River Basin: the Yampa <br />River (from Craig, Colorado, downstream 10 Dinosaur National Monument); the White River <br />(from Rio Blanco Lake downstream to the Utah statcline); and the Gunnison River (from Delta, <br />Colorado, downstream to its mouth). Figure J on the next page shows the four stream reaches <br />ofcrilicalhabital in the Uppcr Colorado River Basin. Each of thcsc reports hus becn prepared <br />to provide local officials with the most curren! approximate floodplain information, to assist them <br />in thcirlocal floodplain management programs. <br /> <br />This Floodplain Inronnation Report presents the results of a study for the delineation of the 50- <br />year and IOO-year floodplains on the reach of the Colorado River mainstem from Rifle,Col<Jrado, <br />dO'WJ\strcam to the Utah slate1inc. It is intended to assist the City of Rifle, the Town of <br />Parachute, Garfield County, the To".n of DeBeque, the Town of Palisade, the City of Grand <br />Junction, the City of Fruita and Mesa County. <br /> <br />While the report has been prepared with local floodplain management needs in mind, the CWCB <br />is aware that this reach of the Colorado River mainstem has b<.-cn designated as critical habitat <br />for endangercd fish by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicc (Service). The Service may choose <br />to utilize some of the infomHllion in this report for Endangered Sp~'Cics Act purposes, but the <br />CWCB neither endor~s nur objeds to such uti1i7.ation. The CWeB ha~ endorsed this report for <br />floodplain management purposcsonIy. <br /> <br /> <br />Department of:\"atural Resources <br />Culuradu Waler CllllSHvaliun Board <br />Flood Control and Floodplain Managcm,'ntSection <br />1J\3ShermanStreet,Roomnl <br />Deo\'er,Colorado8020J <br /> <br />:\'lar"hI995 <br />Re\'isedAlJri11996 <br />