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<br />WHEREAS, the streams with drainage areas streams with drainage that fall outside of <br />the specified criteria, lakes, ponds, and local drainage areas can be designated as approximate <br />floodplain information without a procedure for estimating lOO-year peak flows, as long as the <br />local government understands and agrees that a detailed hydrologic and hydraulic study is <br />required prior to any floodplain development; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the floodplain information contained in said new report is consistent with <br />the floodplain information in Resolution No. 258, dated September 4, 1986, as presented in the <br />September 29, 1986 report; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Pueblo County, Colorado, bas requested the Colorado Water Conservation <br />Board to designate and approve the approximate and detailed floodplain information set forth in <br />Tables 1,2, and 3; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Pueblo County, Colorado, has not requested the Colorado Water <br />Conservation to rescind any of the detailed floodplain information contained in Resolution Nos. <br />3,5, and 10; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(l)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood darnagestherefrom; <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide <br />that legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or <br />along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by <br />the Colorado Water Conservation Board; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(l)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or <br />basins and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the information in said report for said approximate stream reaches, which <br />falls within the regression equation criteria, meets all of the requirements for approximate <br />information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval <br />of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Pueblo County has been notified that the streams that have drainage areas <br />that do not fall within the regression equation criteria, lakes, ponds, and local drainage areas <br />may be designated as approximate floodplain information without a procedure for estimating <br />lOO-year peak flows, as long as the local government understands and agrees that a detailed <br />hydrologic and hydraulic study is required prior to any floodplain development; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Colorado Water Conservation Board has determined that the hydrologic <br />methodologies developed in the GuUlelines for Detennining lOO-Ywr Flood Flows for <br /> <br />6 <br />