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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />LOCAL REQUEST FOR DESIGNATION <br /> <br />WHEREAS, CWCB and Montgomery Watson staff members contacted Town of Ridgway <br />officials regarding the CWCB's designation and llpproval process for floodplain infonnation, and the <br />Town was receptive to the proposed designation action and verbally consented to the CWCB action; <br />and <br /> <br />CR.S. AUTHORITY <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that <br />legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any <br />storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only aJter designation and approval by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins and to <br />make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and <br /> <br />COMPLIANCE WITH CWCB TECHNICAL STANDARDS <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the detailed floodplain infonnation for the Uncompallgre River in said new Flood <br />Insurance Study and Hydrology Addendum with included maps, meets all of the requirements listed <br />under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of <br />Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, a procedure for determining hydrology information in Town of Ridgway for <br />approximate floodplains of reservoirs, lakes, pond" local storm drainage areas, and overflows from <br />irrigation ditches and canals has not been established by the CWCB; and those floodplain areas may <br />not be designated as approximate floodplain information without a procedure for estimating 100- <br />year peak flows, and therefore the local govemm~nt should require that a detailed hydrologic and <br />hydraulic study be performed by a professional ~ngineer and submitted by the developer or the <br />development proponent prior to any floodplain development in those cases; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Town of Ridgway should continue to regulate new development and construction <br />in floodplain areas on a case-by-case basis based on the information presented in said new Flood <br />Insurance Study with included maps, or based on the best available floodplain information that is <br />accessible to the City; and <br /> <br />2 <br />