FLOOD06429

• Designation Number: 554
• County: Eagle
• Community: Basalt
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Floodplain Information Report - Roaring Fork River, Basalt, Eagle and Pitkin Counties, Colorado
• Date: 11/1/2001
• Designation Date: 11/11/2001
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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Undesie:nated Floodplain Studies in Basalt Area

Report
Study Name Author Date Desh'llatiou Status
Flood Insurance Study, Eagle County, Colorado, Federal Emergency Revised To be designated during the
Unincorporated Areas Management Agency January 25, year 2002
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FLOODPLAIN INFORMATION TO BE DESIGNATED

WHEREAS, Matrix Design Group completed a new report entitled "Floodplain
Information Report, Roaring Fork River, Town of Basalt, Eagle and Pitkin Connties, Colorado"
dated November 14, 2001; and

WHEREAS, said new report contains detailed floodplain information for the Roaring Fork
River for a 9.6 mile reach beginning at the Garfield/Eagle Connty Line and continuing upstream to
the confluence with Snowmass Creek; and

LOCAL REOUEST FOR DESIGNATION

WHEREAS, the CWCB contacted the Town of Basalt, Eagle County, and Pitkin Connty via
telephone regarding the CWCB's designation and approval process for floodplain information; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Basalt and Pitkin Connty transmitted letters to the CWCB requesting
designation and approval of said new study for the Roaring Fork River within their respective
jUlisdictions; and

WHEREAS, Eagle County has not yet requested designation and approval of said new study
for the Roaring Fork river within their jurisdiction pending endorsement from the Board of Connty
Commissioners regarding a zero rise floodway along said study reach; and

c.R.S. AUTHORITY

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 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that
legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any

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