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<br />\ <br /> <br />Preface <br /> <br />The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) has prepared a Floodplain Information Report <br />for the Yampa River subbasin of the Upper Colorado River Basin. The Board has also prepared <br />similar reports for three other subbasins of the Upper Colorado River Basin: the White River <br />(from Rio Blanco Lake downstream to the Utah stateline); the Gunnison River (from Delta, <br />Colorado downstream to its mouth); and the Colorado River mainstem (from Rifle, Colorado <br />downstream to the Utah stateline). Figure Ion the next page shows the four stream reaches in <br />the upper Colorado River Basin. Each of these reports has been prepared to provide local <br />officials with the most current approximate floodplain information, to assist them in their local <br />floodplain management programs, <br /> <br />This Floodplain Information Report presents the results of a study for the delineation of the 50- <br />year and toO-year floodplains on the reach of the Yampa River from Craig, Colorado downstream <br />to the upstream limit of Dinosaur National Monument. It is intended to assist the City of Craig <br />and Moffat County. <br /> <br />While the report has been prepared with local floodplain management needs in mind, the CWCB <br />is aware that this reach of the Yampa River has been designated as critical habitat for endangered <br />fish by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). The Service may choose to utilize some <br />of the information in this report for Endangered Species Act purposes, but the CWCB neither <br />endorses nor objects to such utilization. The CWCB has endorsed this report for floodplain <br />management purposes only. <br />