FLOOD06048

• County: Prowers
• Community: Holly
• Stream Name: Arkansas River & Tributaries
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Holly Local Protectio Project
• Date: 3/1/1977
• Prepared For: Holly
• Prepared By: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Project

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
102 Columbine Building
lB45 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado B0203

February 26, 1975

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WHEREAS, the U, S, Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque
District, has completed for the cities of Granada, Lamar and Holly and
the counties of Bent and Prowers, Special Flood Hazard Information
Report, Arkansas River and Tributaries, Great Bend, Kansas to John Martin
Dam, dated June, 1974; and

WHEREAS, said Special Flood Hazard Information Report outlines
and describes the floodwater runoff channels within the above described
areas; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised Statutes 1973,
requires the Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in the preven-
tion of floods and flood damages therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 and 30-2B-11l, Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, provide that legislative bodies of local jurisdictions
may provide zoning regulations for any storm or floodwater runoff
channel only after designation and approval by the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes
1973, requires the Colorado Water Conservation Board, upon designation
and approval of the flood hazard areas as set forth in the aforesaid
U, S, Army Corps of Engineers Special Flood Hazard Information Report,
to make such designations available to such legislative bodies of
local jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said Special
Flood Hazard Information Report and does hereby recommend to the Colo-
rado Water Conservation Board that said Board designate and approve as
flood hazard areas those areas set forth in the report as being subject
to an intermediate regional flood;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conser-
vation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado, this
26th day of February 1975 that it does hereby designate and approve as
flood hazard areas those areas described as being inundated by an
intermediate regional flood as set forth in the Special Flood Hazard
Information Report, Arkansas River and Tributaries, Great Bend, Kansas
to John Martin Dam, dated June, 1974; and