FLOOD02452

• Designation Number: 62
• County: Adams
• County: Arapahoe
• County: Douglas
• Community: Denver Metro Region
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 62 - Flood Hazard Area Delineation - Cherry Creek, Metropolitan Region, Colorado
• Date: 7/1/1976
• Designation Date: 11/1/1976
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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No. 62

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

November 17, 1976

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, the U. S. Army Corps'of Engineers, Omaha District,
completed a floodplain information report entitled "Special Flood
Hazard Report, Volume II, Metropolitan Region, Denver, Colorado,"
dated July, 1971, which included Cherry Creek; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested
by the Denver Regional Council of Governments, by ,resolution adopted'
March 8, 1972, approved and designated the floodplains described in
said Volume II; and

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood
Hazard Area Delineation, Cherry Creek," dated July; 1976,has been
prepared by Merrick and Company at the request of the Urban Drainage
and Flood Control District, the City and County of Denver, the City of
Glendale and Arapahoe County; and '

WHEREAS, said report describes and outlines the floodplain
I data and information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels or
basins of the study area; and

WHEREAS, the Urban Drainage and
requested the Colorado Water Conservation
approve the floodplain areas as set forth

Flood Control District has
Board to designate and
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 t~e 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(l)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes
1973, directs the Colorado Water Conservation Board to design<9..!=.~_-E):J.sL___ ,"
approve storm or f199_dwa_ter-runof,f-channels-or-basins- and-E6- make such
----designat:icfns-avaiI.ible to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions;
and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed the revised and