FLOOD04617

• Designation Number: 370
• County: Crowley
• Community: Ordway
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Floodplain Study and Master Drainage Plan - Ordway, Colorado
• Date: 6/1/1987
• Designation Date: 7/1/1994
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, said report dated July 1994 includes approximate floodplain information for those e
portions of the Central Basin and the East Basin within the corporate limits of the Town of Ordway,
as they were in July 1994; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested by the Town of Ordway, by
Resolution No. 94-367, adopted on July 19, 1994, approved and designated the floodplains described
in said report; and

WHEREAS, said new report dated June 1987 contains approximate floodplain information for
the areas shown as approximate floodplain in Resolution No. 94-367 that is consistent with the
approximate floodplain information contained in Resolution No. 94-367; and

WHEREAS, said new report dated June 1987 contains approximate floodplain information for
areas upstream of the areas shown as approximllte floodplain in Resolution No. 94-367; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Ordway, Colorado, has requested the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in the aforesaid new report; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Ordway, Colorado, has not requested the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to rescind any portion of Resolution No. 94-367; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the Colorado 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 regulations for land uses on or along any
storm or floodwater runoff 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, directs the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve stoflll or floodwater runoff channels or basins and to make
such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the information in said report meets all of the requirements for approximate
information listed under the Board's "Rules arld Regulations for the Designation and Approval of
Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1);

WHEREAS, the staff finds that there is nO need to rescind any portion of Resolution No. 94-367
in order to designate said new report; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Ordway will regulate those areas which are not shown as being in the
approximate floodplain in Resolution No. 94-367 but which are shown as being in the approximate
floodplain in said new report in the same manner that the Town of Ordway regulates those areas which
are shown as being in the approximate floodplain in Resolution No. 94-367;

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