FLOOD05743

• Designation Number: 322
• County: La Plata
• Community: Durango
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Durango, Colorado
• Date: 12/1/1989
• Designation Date: 7/1/1992
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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The Animas River from a point approximately
1.4 miles upstream of the new La Posta
Road bridge upstream approximately 3.0 miles

(FPR #103)

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The Animas River from a point approximately
.1 mile downstream of the new La Posta Road
bridge upstream approximately 05 mile

(FPR #103)

Dry Gulch Creek from its confluence with
Junction Creek upstream approximately .7 mile

(FPR #103)

WHEREAS, the detailed information included in said new report for Junction Creek
from its confluence with the Animas River upstream approximately 1.4 miles is consistent
with the information for Junction Creek previously designated by Resolution No. 103,
adopted on May 12, 1978, and subsequently rescinded by Resolution No. 180, adopted on
December 4, 1980; and

WHEREAS, the City of Durango, Colorado has requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in the aforesaid new
report; 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 a
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 storm or floodwater runoff channels
or basins and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions;
and

WHEREAS, the information in said new report meets all of the requirements for
detailed floodplain 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); and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board in regular meeting assembled in Cortez, Colorado, this 10th day of July, 1992, that
it does hereby designate and approve as detailed floodplain information the 100-year
floodplains as described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said new report,

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