FLOOD02667

• Designation Number: 258
• County: Pueblo
• Community: Pueblo
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Pueblo
• Date: 9/1/1986
• Designation Date: 9/1/1986
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

Bridge. Wildhorse-Dry Creek. University Park Tributary. and the
Lake Minnequa Area. and designate and approve as storm OL
floodwater runoff channels or basins the reach of the Arkansas
River upstream of a point approximately 1500 feet downstream of
the Colorado Highway 96 bridge delineated by Zone A in said
report. and further recommends that the portion of the
floodplain designation for the reach of Fountain Creek from its
confluence with the Arkansas River upstream to a point
approximately 3400 feet upstream of the Colorado Highway 47. as
approved by Resolution No.3, adopted May 7, 1969, and the
portion of the floodplain designation for the reach of
Wildhorse-Dry Creek from the cross ing of the Denver and Rio
Grande Western Railroad just downstream of 11th Street upstream
to the projection of 29th Street. as approved by Resolution No.
5, adopted January 14. 1970, be rescinded.

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NOW, THEREFORE. BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Grand
Junction, Colorado, this 4th day of September. 1986, that it
does hereby designate and approve as floodplain areas those
areas described by the floodwater surface elevations and
prof iles in said Federal Emergency Management Agency report.
dated September 29, 1986. for the reach of the Arkansas River
from the downstream corporate limit upstream to a point
approximately 1500 feet downstream of the Colorado highway 96
bridge, the reach of Fountain Creek from its confluence with
the Arkansas River upstream to a point approximately 3400 feet
upstream of the Colorado Highway 47 bridge, Wildhorse-Dry
Creek, University Park Tributary, and the Lake Minnequa Area;
and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board does hereby designate
and approve as storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins
the reach of the Arkansas River upstream of a point
approximately 1500 feet downstream of the Colorado Highway 96
bridge delineated by Zone A in the Flood Insurance Study
contingent upon the understanding that the City of Pueblo will
regulate the storm and floodwater runoff channels (Zone A) on a
case-by-case basis, subject to a detailed hydrologic and
hydraulic analysis by a professional engineer; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board does hereby rescind
those said portions of Resolution No.3. dated May 7. 1969, and
Resolution No.5. dated January 14. 1970; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is
directed to send a certified copy of this resolution to the
City of Pueblo. the Board of County Commissioners of Pueblo
County. the Albuquerque District of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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