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<br />WHEREAS, future hydrologic analyses on the lower Uncompahgre River could be revised to .A <br />reflect flood control benefits from the Ridgway Reservoir in the event that an acceptable flood control _ <br />operation and maintenance plan becomes adopted by federal and state agencies as appropriate; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, a procedure for determining hydrology information in Montrose County for <br />approximate floodplains of reservoirs, lakes, ponds, local storm drainage areas, and overflows from <br />irrigation ditches and canals has not been established by the CWCB; and those floodplain areas may <br />not be designated as approximate floodplain information without a procedure for estimating 100- <br />year peak flows, and therefore the local govenunent should require that a detailed hydrologic arid <br />hydraulic study be performed by a professional engineer and submitted by the developer or the <br />development proponent prior to any floodplain development in those cases; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, hydraulic determinations for the approximate floodplains listed in Table 2 <br />were prepared by FEMA using approximate hydraulic techniques approved under the Board's <br />"Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or <br />Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Montrose County should continue to regulate new development and construction <br />in floodplain areas on a case.by-case basis based on the information presented in said new Flood <br />Insurance Study and Hydrology Addendum, or based on the best available floodplain information that <br />is accessible to the County; and <br /> <br />DESIGNATION AND APPROVAL ACTIOri <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in <br />regular meeting assembled in Denver, ColoradO, this 20th day of November 2000, that it does hereby <br />designate and approve as detailed floodplain information the 100-year floodplain delineations as listed <br />in Table I for unincorporated portions of Montrose County contained in said new Flood Insurance <br />Study dated July 17, 1986 and said new Hydrology Addendum dated November 2000, with included <br />Flood Insurance Rate Maps; and <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board does hereby designate and approve as <br />approximate floodplain information the 100-year floodplain delineations as listed in Table 2 for <br />unincorporated portions of Montrose County contained in said new Flood Insurance Study dated March <br />16, 1995 and said new Hydrology Addendum dated November 2000, with included Flood Insurance <br />Rate Maps; and <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is directed to send a certified <br />copy ofthis resolution to Montrose County and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 8, <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />4 <br />