FLOOD03500

• Designation Number: 37
• County: Jefferson
• Community: Lakewood
• Stream Name: Sanderson Gulch, North Sanderson Gulch, Weir Gulch
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 37 - Major Drainageway Planning - Volumes I and II, Inlcuding Technical Appendix and Flood Hazard Maps
• Date: 8/1/1972
• Designation Date: 12/1/1974
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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COLORADO HATER CONSERVATION BOARD
102 Columbine Building
1845 Sherman Street'
Denver, Colorado '80203
December 4, 1974
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vffiEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha
District, completed in November 1970 the FloodPlain Information Report
for the Denver Metropolitan Region, Volume V, which included Sanderson
Gulch and North Sanderson Gulch; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested
by the Denver Regional Council of Governments, by resolution adopted
January 12, 1971, approved and designated the floodplains described in
said Volume V; and

WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood, in cooperation with the City
and County of Denver, Jefferson County and the Urban Drainage and Flood
Control District, requested Frasier & Gingery, Inc. Consulting Engineers,
Denver, Colorado, to revise the November 1970 Flood Plain Information
Report, Volume V, insofar as it pertains to Sanderson Gulch and North
Sanderson Gulch, to include upstream reaches not previously reported,
taking into account the urban development within the basin which has
changed the hydrologic and hydraulic characteristics of the basins and
their floodplains; and

\VHEREAS, Frasier & Gingery, Inc. has completed Major Drain-
ageway Planning Report, Volumes 1 and 2, including Technical"Appendix
dated August 1972, and Flood Hazard Area Maps, as amended, thereto,
dated April 1973, on Sanderson Gulch, North Sanderson Gulch and Weir
Gulch; and '

WHEREAS, the report and flood hazard area maps outline and
describe the revised and additional upstream floodplains; and

~ffiEREAS, Article 149-1-11(4), Colorado,Revised Statutes 1963,
directs the Colorado ,Water Conservation Board to designate and approve
storm or flood water runoff channels and to make such designations
available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, Section 106-2-10 (counties) and Section 139-60-1
(towns and cities) provide that loeal govermental jurisdictions may
-provicde -zoning- -regulations for any -stomor -flood' water --runoff--channel
after designation and approval of such areas by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board; and

vffiEREAS, the City of LakewooQ has requested the Colorado
Water Conservation Board to review said reports and flood hazard ,area