FLOOD02448

• Designation Number: 316
• County: San Miguel
• Community: Unincorporated San Miguel County
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Resolution - FPR 316-91 - FIS - San Miguel County, Colorado, and Incorporated Areas: Sawpit and Telluride
• Date: 9/1/1988
• Designation Date: 3/1/1991
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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FPR 316-91

WHEREAS. Section 37-60-106(1)(c). Colorado Revised
Statutes. 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 information in said new report relating to the
study reaches for the San Miguel River at Placerville. the San
Miguel River near Telluride. the San Miguel River near
Telluride-Secondary Channel. Leopard Creek. and Fall Creek
meets all of the requirements for detailed floodplain
information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for
the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or
Floodwater Runoff Channels in colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and

WHEREAS. the information ~n said new reports relating to
the above-mentioned approximate study reaches meets all of the
requirements for approximate floodplain information listed
under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation
and Approval of Floodplains arld of Storm or F'loodwater Runoff
Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1);

NOW. 'l'HEREFORE. BE 11' RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regula~ meeting assembled in Denver.
Colorado. this 21st day of M;.Irch. 1991. that it does hereby
designate and approve as detcliled floodplain information the
100-year floodplains as described by the floodwater surface
elevations and profiles in said new report. dated September 30.
1988. for the study reaches of the San Miguel River at
Placerville. the San Miguel River near Telluride. the San
Migue 1 River near Te lluride-S~condary Channe 1. Leopard Creek.
and Fall Creek. and that it does hereby designate and approve
as approximate floodplain information the 100-year floodplains
as described by the floodplain delineations in said new report.
dated September 30. 1988. for the above-mentioned approximate
study reaches and does het:eby rescind all portions of
Resolution No. 118. dated Nove~ber 1. 1978. as presented in the
March. 1978. report. except for Cornet Creek; and

BE 11' FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is
directed to send a certified copy of this resolution to the
Board of County Commissioners of San Miguel County; the Town of
Norwood. Colorado; the Town of Ophir. Colorado; the Town of
Sawpit. Colorado; the Town of Telluride. Colorado; the Colorado
Di vis ion of Disas ter Emergency Services; and the Federa 1
Emergency Management Agency.

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