FLOOD05309

• Designation Number: 270
• County: Adams
• Community: Westminster
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 270 - FAHD - Big Dry Creek & Tributaries
• Date: 11/1/1986
• Designation Date: 12/1/1987
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-2B-lll, Colorado Revised
Statutes, provide that such 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-l06(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 jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS. An Agreement has been entered into between the
Urban Drainage and Flood Control District and the City of
Westminster to assure the flood routing capability of Stanley
Lake Reservoir as directed by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board at its January 23, 19B7, meeting; and

WHEREAS, An Agreement has been entered into between the
Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, the City of
Broomfield, and the City of Westminster to assure the flood
routing capability of Great Western Reservoir as directed by
the Colorado Water Conservation Board at its January 23, 19B7,
meeting; and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said revised
information and data 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
( lntermedlate reglona 1 r lOOd) as descrioed by che f 100dwa cer
surface elevations and profiles in said new report, and further
recommends that the portion of the floodplain designation for
Big Dry Creek upstream of Interstate Highway 25 as approved by
Resolution No. 23. adopted July 11, 1973, be rescinded;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver,
Colorado, this 1st day of October, 19B7, that it does hereby
amend its resolution of January 23. 19B7, Resolution 270, for
the. designation and appr-oval as floodplaina.reas those. areas
described as being inundated by a 100-year flood as described
by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said new
report, dated November, 1986, and does hereby rescind that said
portion of Resolution No. 23, dated July 11, 1973; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Agreement No. B6-10.04 dated
April 21, 19B7, and Agreement No. B7-02.02 July 14, 1987. be
attachments hereto; and

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