FLOOD07233

• Designation Number: 315
• County: Broomfield
• Community: Broomfield
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Broomfield, Colorado, Adams, Boulder and Jefferson Counties
• Date: 9/1/1990
• Designation Date: 3/1/1991
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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except that portion downstream of Lowell
Boulevard
Gay Reservoir (Tom Frost Reservoir) Channel
North Tributary
Nissen Reservoir Channel except that
portion from Sheridan Boulevard
Nissen Reservoir Channel North Tributary
West Lake Channel
West Lake Channel North Tributary
upstream to East 10th Avenue
Windmill Basin
Airport Creek
Big Dry Creek
North Branch Airport Creek
Gay Reservoir (Tom Frost Reservoir
Channel from Zuni Street upstream to
Lowell Boulevard
Brandywine Creek

(FPR #144)

(FPR #144)
(FPR #144)

(FPR #144)
(FPR #144)
(FPR #144)

(FPR #144)
(FPR #270)
(FPR #270)
(FPR #270)

(FPR #92-314)
(FPR #92-314); and

WHEREAS, the City of Broomfield, Colorado has requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in the aforesaid new
report; and

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 Il1ay 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 information in said new report relating to the reach of Nissen
Reservoir Channel from a point just below Midway Boulevard upstream to East 10th
Avenue meets all of the requirements for detailed floodplain 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); and

WHEREAS, the information in said new report relating to the reach of Nissen

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