FLOOD02562

• Designation Number: 344
• County: El Paso
• Community: Manitou Springs
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Resolution - FPR 93-344 - FIS - Manitou Springs, Colorado, El Paso County
• Date: 8/1/1991
• Designation Date: 3/1/1993
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, said new report provides, on the basis of a hydrologic analysis,
topographic mapping, the construction of a flood control project, and a revised hydraulic _
analysis, detailed information that is more accurate and current than the approximate ,.,
information contained in that portion of the August 1, 1983 report previously designated by
Resolution No. 221, relating to the reach of Beckers Lane Tributary extending from its
confluence with Fountain Creek upstream a distance of 1300 feet; and

WHEREAS, the City of Manitou Springs, Colorado has requested the Colorado
Water Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in the
aforesaid new report; and

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

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide
that legislative bodies of local jurisdictions 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, Section37-6D-106(1)( c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado
Water Conservation to designate and approve storms or floodwaters runoff channels or
basins and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; _
and ,.,

WHEREAS, the information in said new report heretofore described in this
resolution 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

NOW, lHEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado, this 5th day of March, 1993, that
it does hereby designate and approve as detailed floodplain information the 100-year
floodplains as described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said new report,
dated August 19, 1991, heretofore described in this resolution, and does hereby rescind that
portion of Resolution No. 221, dated January 5, 1984, regarding the approximate
information for that portion of Beckers Lane Tributary extending from its confluence with
Fountain Creek upstream for a distance of 1300 feet, as presented in the August 1, 1983
report; and

BE IT FURlHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is directed to send
a certified copy of this resolution to the Board of County Commissioners of EI Paso County,
Colorado; the City of Manitou Springs, Colorado; the City of Colorado Springs, Colorado;
the Colorado Office of Emergency Management; and the Federal Emergency Management
Agency.

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