FLOOD05842

• Designation Number: 532
• County: Montrose
• Community: Nucla
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Resolution - FPR 00-532 - FHBM - Nucla
• Date: 3/1/1976
• Designation Date: 11/1/2000
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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 oflocal jurisdictions; and '

COMPLIANCE WITH CWCB TECHNICAL STANDARDS

WHEREAS, the approximate floodplain information for the Town of Nuc1a as presented on
said Flood Hazard Boundaty Map dated March 26, 1976 and referred to in said new Floodplain
Information Report dated November 2000 meets all of the requirements 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

WHEREAS, 100-year peak discharges within Town of Nuc1a for Calamity Draw were
developed by Montgomery-Watson utilizing the latest available CWCB regional regression equations
entitled "Guidelines for Determining 100-year Flood Flows for Approximate Floodplains in
Colorado"; and

WHEREAS, hydraulic determinations for the approximate floodplain delineations within
the Town of Nuc1a were prepared by FEMA using approximate hydraulic techniques approved
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

WHEREAS, additional hydraulic computations were made by Montgomery-Watson to
estimate 100-year flood depths and to verify floodplain top widths at certain stream locations along
Calamity Draw within the Town ofNuc1a, and that information is published in said new Floodplain
Information Report dated November 2000; and

WHEREAS, no major errors were discovered on said Flood Hazard Boundaty Map and
therefore no major revisions to said map are warranted at this time; and

DESIGNATION AND APPROVAL ACTION

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in
regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado, this 20th day of November 2000, that it does hereby
designate and approve as approximate floodplain information the 100-year floodplain delineations for
the Town ofNuc1a presented on said Flood Hazard Boundaty Map dated March 26, 1976 and referred
to in said new Floodplain Information Report dated November 2000; and

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