FLOOD04737

• Designation Number: 456
• County: Logan
• Community: Sterling
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Floodplain Anaylsis - Pawnee Creek Overflows, Sterling
• Date: 2/1/1997
• Designation Date: 5/1/1997
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

WHEREAS, the <Ietailed information contained in said new report, which is based on the
hydrology values provided in the Sterling Flood Insurance Study (Resolution No. 400), provides
lDO-year flood profiles and floodplain delineations from Iris Drive to County Road 29 for the
Pawnee Creek overflows within the City of Sterling and Logan County, which is an area that has
not previously been studied; and

LOCAL REQUEST FOR DESIGNATION

WHEREAS, the City of Sterling has requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
designate and approve the detailed floodplain information as set forth in said new report dated February
3,1997; and

WHEREAS, the City of Sterling has not requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
rescind any of the previously completed floodplain information as listed in Table I; and

C.R.S. AUTHORITY

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(l)(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(l)(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 jurisdictions; and

COMPLIANCE WITH CWCB TECHNICAL STANDARDS

WHEREAS, the floodplain information itl said new report dated February 3, 1997 meets all of
the requirements, based on a cursory review by the CWCB staff and a more detailed review by the City
of Sterling staff, for detailed information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the
Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado"
(2 CCR 408-1);

DESIGNATION AND APPROVAL ACTION

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in
regular meeting assembled in Pueblo, Colorado, this 12th day of May, 1997, that it does hereby
designate and approve as detailed floodplain information the I DO-year floodplain data as described in
said new report dated February 3, 1997; and

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