FLOOD02150

• County: Routt
• Community: Steamboat Springs
• Stream Name: Yampa River
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Title: Steamboat Springs Community File
• Date: 1/1/2001
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Community File

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No. 56

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
102 Columbine Building
1845 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

March 17, 1976

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood
Hazard Information, Yampa River and Tributaries, Steamboat Springs,
Colorado," dated February, 1976, has been prepared by the U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, at the request of the Routt
County Regional Planning Commission and the Colorado Water Conservation
Board; 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 City of Steamboat Springs has requested the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve the flood-
plain areas as set forth in the aforesaid report; and

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

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 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-l06(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes
1973, 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;
and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said report and
does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conservation Board that
the board designate and approve as floodplain areas those areas inundated
by a 100-year flood (intermediate regional flood) as described by the
floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said report;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conser-
vation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado, this
17th day of March, 1976 that it does hereby designate and approve as
floodplain areas those areas described as being inundated by a 100-year
flood as set forth in said report; and '

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