FLOOD05933

• Designation Number: 406
• County: El Paso
• Community: Monument
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Resolution - FPR 96-406 - FIS - Monument
• Date: 1/25/1996
• Designation Date: 1/1/1996
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, the Town of Monwnent, Colorado, has not requested the Colorado Water
Conservation to rescind any of the detailed floodplain information contained in Resolutions Nos.
263 or 280; 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 30-2$-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 basiI1 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 for the stream reaches listed in Table I
meets all of the requirements for detailed inforlIlation 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, the information in said new report for the stream reaches listed in Table 2
and the information for the unnamed tributary to Monwnent Creek meets all of the requirements
for approximate 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

WHEREAS, Colorado Water Conservation Board has determined that the hydrologic
methodology developed in the Guidelines for Determining lOO-Year Flood Flows for
Approximate Floodplains is appropriate for desigrUltion and approval of approximate floodplain
information and for use in simple floodplain analyses for development such as open space,
agriculture, farm bridges, pole barns and individual single residential structures, but that the
methodology is not appropriate for development involving residential subvidivisions greater than
50 lots or occuring on sites greater than 5 acres, coIl1I1lercial construction, industrial construction,
construction of public transportation facilities or construction of flood control activities; and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in
regular meeting assembled in Northglenn, Colorado, this 25th day of January, 1996, that it does
hereby designate and approve as detailed floodplain information the 100-year floodplains as
described in said new report, dated September 29, 1989, for the study reaches listed in Table I,
and does hereby rescind that portion of Resolution No. 263 relating to the approximate floodplain
information for the stream reaches listed in Table I; and

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