FLOOD03489

• Designation Number: 301
• County: Arapahoe
• Community: Unincorporated Arapahoe County
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Hazard Area Delineation - Piney Creek Tributaries
• Date: 4/1/1989
• Designation Date: 7/1/1989
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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FPR 301

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
721 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, COlorado 80203

July 10, 1989

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WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "r'lood
Hazard Area Delineation, Piney Creek Tributaries," dated April,
1989, has been prepared by Greenhorne and O'Mara, Inc., at the
request of the Urban Drainage and F'lood Control District in
cooperation with Arapahoe County, Colorado; and

WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain
information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels on
Tenderfoot Gulch, Sampson Gulch, Saddle Rock Ranches Gulch,
South Saddle Rock Tributary, and Antelope Creek; and

WHEREAS, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District has
requested the Colorado Water conservation Board to designate
and approve the floodplain areas as set forth in the aforesaid
report; and

WHEREAS, Section
Statutes, requires the
assist in the prevention
and

37-60-l06(1)(c). Colorado Revised
Colorado Water Conservation Board to
of floods and flood damages therefrom;

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
Statutes, provide that such legis la ti ve bod ies of loca 1
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, Section 37-60-106(1) (c), Colorado Revised
Statutes, 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

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said report
and finds that it meets all the applicable requirements for
des igna t ion as detai led floodpla in informa t ion under the
Board's "Rules and Regulations for the DeGignation and Approval
of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in
Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1);

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