FLOOD04033

• Designation Number: 196
• County: Eagle
• Community: Gypsum
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Resolution - FPR 196 - FIS - Gypsum, Eagle County, Colorado
• Date: 3/1/1981
• Designation Date: 8/1/1982
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

FPR 196 /

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

August 16, 1982

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WHEREAS, a report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Town of
Gypsum, COlorado, Eagle County," which includes floodplain
information and data for Gypsum Creek and the Eagle River, dated
March 16, 1981, has been prepal::ed by Gingery Associates, Inc.,
under contract .with the Federal Insurarice Administration, and

_WHEREAS, said report describes arid outlinesthEi floodplain
data and information for the storm and, floodwater. runoff channels
or basins withirithecurrent~orporate limits of the Town of
Gypsum; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Gypsum has requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplain areas
as set forth in the aforesaid report for Gypsum Creek only; and

WHEREAS,
1973, requires
the prevention

Section 37-60-10E;(1), Colorado Revised Statutes
the Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in
of ,floods and flood damages therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-.28-111, Colorado Revised .
Statutes 1973, provide that s~ch legislative bodies' of local
jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or
along any storm or floodwater r~noff. channel or basin only after
designation and approval by 1::he 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
jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the staff of the aoard has rev iewed 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 100-year flood (intermediate regional flood)
as describ€:d by the floodwater ~urface elevations and profiles in
said report for Gypsum Creek only;