FLOOD04044

• Designation Number: 210
• County: Delta
• Community: Paonia
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Paonia, Delta County, Colorado
• Date: 9/1/1982
• Designation Date: 3/1/1983
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

FPR 210

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sher~an Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

March :3, 1983

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, a report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Town of
paonia, Colorado, Delta County,'; wh'ich includes floodplain
information and data for Minnesota Creek and North Fork Gunnison
River, dated September 16, 1982, has been prepared by MSM
Consultants, Inc., ,under coritract with the Federal Emergency'
Management Agency; and

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

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

, WHERE~S, 'Section" 37-60-106 ( 1 ) , Colorado Revised Statutes
1973,'requiies the'Coloradowater"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 1973, provide that such legislative bodies of local
jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations' for land uses on or
along any storm or floodwater rllnoff 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
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 Board has reviewed said report and
does hereby recommend to the Colo,rado Water Conservation Board
that the Board designate and a!?prove as floodplain areas those
areas inundated by a 100-year flood (intermediate regional flood )
as described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in
said report;

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