FLOOD06592

• Designation Number: 518
• County: Douglas
• Community: Unincorporated Douglas County
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Hazard Area Delineation - Oak Gulch and Lemon Gulch
• Date: 2/1/2000
• Designation Date: 5/1/2000
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

NEW FLOODPLAIN INFORMATION

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WHEREAS, CH2MHilI completed a new floodplain analysis for the Urban Drainage &
Flood Control District, Douglas County, and the Town of Parker entitled "Flood Hazard Area
Delineation, Oak Gulch and Lemon Gulch" dated February 2000; and

WHEREAS, said new report includes detailed floodplain information for Oak Gulch,
Lemon Gulch and an unnamed tributary within the Town of Parker and unincorporated areas of,
Douglas County, Colorado; and

LOCAL REOUEST FOR DESIGNATION

WHEREAS, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District and Douglas County have
requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve the detailed floodplain
information as set forth in said new report dated February 2000; 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 aD)'
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 of local jurisdictions; and

COMPLIANCE WITH CWCB TECHNICAL STANDARDS

WHEREAS, the floodplain information in said new report dated February 2000 meets all of the
requirements, based on a cursory review by the eWCB staff and a more detailed review by CH2Mhill,
the UD&FCD, Douglas County and the Town of Parker, for detailed 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);

DESIGNATION AND APPROVAL ACTION

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in
regular meeting assembled in Alamosa, Colorado, this 22nd day of May 2000, that it does hereby
designate and approve as detailed floodplain information the 100-year floodplains for Oak Gulch,

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