FLOOD02467

• Designation Number: 79
• County: Mesa
• Community: Grand Junction
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Resolution - FPR 79 - Flood Hazard Information - Colorado River and Tributaries, Grand Junction, CO
• Date: 11/1/1976
• Designation Date: 9/1/1977
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

Floodplain Resolution No. 79

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

September 23, 1977

RES 0 1 UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers"
,Sacramento District, completed in March, 1973, the Flood Plain Informa-
tion Report for Grand Junction, Colorado, which included the Colorado
and Gunnison Rivers; and

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WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested
py the Western Colorado Regional planning Commission, by resolution
adopted October 31, 1973, approved and designated the floodplains
described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood'
Haza+d Information, Colorado River and Tributaries, Grand Junction,
Colorado, dated November, 1976, has been prepared by the United States
Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, at the request of the
City of Grand Junction and Mesa C01.111ty; 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 report and ~lood hazard area maps outline and
,de!>cribe the revised floodplains o~ the Colorado River from Road 22 to
-Road 32 and the downstream 2.0 milt! reach of the Gunnison River; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Coanty Commissioners of Mesa County
has requested the Colorado Water conservation Board to designate and
approve the floodplain areas as set: forth in the aforesaid report; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised Statutes 1973,
requires the Colorado Water Conse~ation Board to assist in the pre-
vention of floods and flood damage5 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 o~ or along any
storm or f100awater runoff channel or basin only after designation and
approval-by-the-Col'orado-Water-co~rvanon Board; ana ---- "

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(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