FLOOD03238

• Designation Number: 138
• County: Jefferson
• County: Denver
• Community: Lakewood
• Stream Name: Lakewood Gulch
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: FHAD - Lakewood Gulch
• Date: 2/1/1979
• Designation Date: 5/18/1979
• Prepared For: Lakewood, Denver County, Jefferson County
• Prepared By: UDFCD
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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I INTRODUCTION

as stated in Section 37-60-106 (1) (e) of the Colorado Revised

Statutes 1973. The cities, incorporated towns and counties

This report has been prepared for the Urban Drainage and Flood

within the study area may provide zoning regulations

and the City and County of Denver.

It delineates the potential

.....to establish, regulate, restrict, and limit such uses
on or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or
basin, as such storm or floodwater runoff or basin has
been designated and approved by the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board, in order to lessen or avoid the hazards
to persons and damage to property resulting from the ac-
cumulation of storm or floodwaters.....

Control District (UDFCD), The City of Lakewood, Jefferson County,

hazard associated with a 100-year flood on the channel of Lake-

wood Gulch.

The flood plains are deemed accurate within the

limitations of hydrologic methodology, water surface profile

as stated in Section 30-28-11 for county governments and

Section 31-23-201 for municipal governments of the Colorado

computations, and the scales of the mapping utilized. The re-

port assumes that the drainage basin is fully developed and

that the channel configuration is that which is in existence

Revised Statutes 1973.

in 1978. The capacities of all culverts, storm sewers, and

Upon acceptance of this report by the Urban Drainage and Flood

bridges have been evaluated, and it has been assumed that all

Control District and the designation and approval of this re-

facilities would remain free of debris during flooding.

port by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the areas des-

cribed as being inundated by the 100-year flood (Intermediate

Authorization

Regional Flood) can be designated as flood hazard areas and

This report was authorized by the Urban Drainage and Flood

Control District in joint sponsorship with the Colorado Water

their use regulated accordingly. The terms "Intermediate Re-

gional Flood," "lOO-year flood," and "one percent probability

Conservation Board. These agencies make flood plain informa-

flood" can be used interchangeably, since they all define the

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tion and mapping available to enable local govermnents to adopt

same flood event.

and administer flood plain regulations.

The Colorado Water Conservation Board has the Power and duty

Purpose and Scope
This report was prepared for the guidance of local officials

.....to designate and approve storm or floodway runoff
channels or basins, and to make such designations avail-
able to legislative bodies of cities and incorporated
towns; to county planning commissions; and to board~ of
adjustment of cities; incorporated towns; and countles
of this state.....

in planning the use and regulation of the flood plain. The

report presents an estimate of the nature and extent of prob-

able future floods which can be reasonably expected along the

studied channel.

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