FLOOD07219

• Designation Number: 206
• County: Larimer
• Community: Fort Collins
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Master Drainageway Planning - Fossil Creek Drainage Basin, Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado
• Date: 8/1/1982
• Designation Date: 1/1/1983
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Cent~nnial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, ColOrado 80203

January 7, 1983

R E, SO, L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, a floodplain infOrmation report entitled "Master
Drainageway Planning Study, Fossil Creek Drainage Basin, Fort
Collins, Larimer County, Colorado," dated August, 1982, has
been prepared by Simons, Li & AS~ociates, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, said report descrtbes and outlines the floodplain
data and information for the stOtm and floodwater runoff channels
or basins of the study area: and

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Larimer County
and,the City of Fort Collins h~ve requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplain areas
\ as set forth in the aforesaid reJ;lort: and

WHEREAS,
1973, requires
the prevention

Section 37-60-106( 1), Colorado Revised Statutes
the Colorado' watet' Conservation Board to assist in
of floods and flo~d damages therefrom: and

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, provide that Slich legislative bodies' of local
jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or
along any storm or floodwater r4noff 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
1973, directs the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate
and approve storm or floodwater runof f channels or bas ins and to
make such designations availabl~ to legislative bodies of local
jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said report and
does hereby recommend to the C~lorado Water Conservation Board
that the Board designate and aJ;lprove 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 report;

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