FLOOD06892

• Designation Number: 273
• County: Larimer
• Community: Estes Park
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 273 - FIS - Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado
• Date: 5/1/1987
• Designation Date: 5/1/1987
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS. Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
Statutes. provide that such legislative bodies of local
jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on
or along any 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

WHEREAS. the staff of the Board has reviewed said revised
information and data and does hereby recommend to the Colorado
Water Conservation Board that the Board designate and approve
as floodplain areas those areas inundated by a 100-year flood
(intermediate regional flood) as described by the floodwater
surface elevations and profiles in said new report. and further
recommends that the floodplain designation for the Big Thompson
River, Fall River. Fish Creek. and Black Canyon Creek. as
approved by Resolution No. 115. adopted November 1. 1978. be
rescinded;

NOW. THEREFORE. BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver.
Colorado. this 15th day of May. 1987. that it does hereby
designate and approve as floodplain areas those areas described
as being inundated by a 100-year flood as described by the
flQodwat.er s~~f~ce elevations and~Qfiles in said new_ repor,-h,
dated May 4, 1987. and does hereby rescind that said portion of
Resolution No. 115. dated November 1. 1987; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is
directed to send a certified copy of this resolution to the,
Town of Estes Park. the Board of County Commissioners of
Larimer County, the Colorado Division of Disaster Emergency
Services, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Q ~ R I I E I Q ~ I ~

I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of
a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the members of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular session assembled
at Denver. Colorado. on the 15th day of May. 1987. at which a
quorum was present.

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