FLOOD03663

• Designation Number: 154
• County: Summit
• Community: Silverthorne
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Silverthorn, Colorado
• Date: 11/1/1979
• Designation Date: 1/1/1980
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

Floodplain
Resol. NO. 154

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman street
Denver, Colorado 80203

January 30, 1980

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WHEREAS, a report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Town
of Silverthorne, Colorado," which includes floodplain information
and data for the Blue River, Straight Creek, and Willow Creek,
dated November, 1979, has been prepared by Gingery Associates, Inc.,
under 'contract with the Federal Insurance Administration; and

WHEREAS, said report describes and outlines the floodplain
data and information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels
or basins of the study area; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Silverthorne has requested the
Colorado Water conservation Board to designate and approve the
floodplain areas as set forth in the aforesaid report; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1), ColOrado Revised Statutes
1973, requires the Colorado Water conservation Board to assist in
the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, provide that such legislative bodies of local juris-
dictions may provide zoning regulations fOr land uses on or along
any storm Or floodwater runoff,channel or basin only after designa-
tion and approval by the Colorado Water Conservation Board; and

WHEREAS, section 37-60-106(1) (c), ColoradO Revised Statutes
1973, 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 juris-
dictions; and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said report
and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
that the Board designate and approve as floodplain areas those
areas inundated by a lOa-year flood (intermediate regional flood)
as described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in
said report;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado,
this 30th day of January, 1980, that it does hereby designate and
approve as floodplain areas those areas described as being inundated
by a lOa-year flood as set forth in said report; and