FLOOD03770

• Designation Number: 448
• County: Arapahoe
• Community: Unincorporated Arapahoe County
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 97-448 - FHAD - Big Dry Creek & Tributaries
• Date: 11/1/1996
• Designation Date: 3/1/1997
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, said new report dated November 1996 provides detailed floodplain
information for Big Dry Creek from its confluence with the South Platte River upstream to its
headwater areas located within northern Douglas County; and

WHEREAS, said new report dated November 1996 revises, on the basis of updated land
use and revised hydrology and hydraulic analyses, all previous floodplain information for Big Dry
Creek within Arapahoe County, Douglas County, the City of Englewood, the City of Greenwood
Village, and the City of Littleton; and

WHEREAS, said new report dated November 1996 contains detailed floodplain information
for Big Dry Creek that is inconsistent with the previously designated detailed floodplain information
for Big Dry Creek contained in resolution Nos. 45, that is inconsistent with the designated portion of
the detailed information for Big Dry Creek contained in resolution No. 353, that is incollSistent with
the undesignated detailed and approximate information for Big Dry Creek contained for aforesaid
Arapahoe County Flood Insurance Study dated August 16, 1995, and that is incollSistent with the
previollSly designated approximate information for Big Dry Creek contained in resolution No. 428; and

WHEREAS, the City of Littleton, the City of Englewood, the City of Greenwood Village, and
the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District have requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board
to designate and approve the detailed floodplain information for Big Dry Creek contained in said new
report dated November 1996; and

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

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that
legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning reguiatiollS for land llSes on Dr along any
storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by the Colorado Water
COllServation 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 jurisdictiollS; and

WHEREAS, the floodplain information in said new report dated November 1996 meets all of
the requirements for detailed information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the
Designation and Approval of FloodplaillS and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado"
(2 CCR 408-1);

. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water COllServation Board in
regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado, this 20th day of March, 1997, that it does hereby
designate and approve as detailed floodplain information the 100-year floodplains for Big Dry Creek as

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