FLOOD07425

• County: Boulder
• County: Weld
• Community: Boulder, Weld County
• Stream Name: Coal Creek, Rock Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Hazard Analyses
• Date: 10/1/1976
• Prepared For: Weld County
• Prepared By: USDA Soil Conservation Service
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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state the CWCB establishes priorities and schedules these studies on a

prior ty basis. The CWCS and the 5011 Conservation Service entered into

a jol t coordination agreement for flood: hazard analyses In January

1972. The plan of study for the Coal Cr~ek and Rock Creek study was

prepa ed in May 1974.

lood hazard analyses are carried out by the Soil Conservation

Servl e as an outgrowth of the recommend~tions in A Report by the Task

Foroe on Federal Flood Control Polioy, Hbuse Document No. 465 (89th

Congr ss, August 10, 1966), especially Recommendation 9(c), Regulation

of L Use, which recommended the preparation of preliminary reports

for g idance in those areas where asistance Is needed before a full

flood hazard Information report can be prepared or where a full report

is no scheduled.

thorlty for funding flood hazard ~nalyses Is provided by Section 6

of Pu lic Law 83-566, which authorizes the U. S. Department of Agriculture

to co erate with other federal, state, and local agencies to make

inves and surveys of the watersheds of rivers and other waterways

as a the development of coordinated programs.

carrying out flood hazard analyses, the Soil Conservation Service
is g responsive to Executive Order 11296, dated August 10, 1966,
especi lly to Section 1(4), which directs that all exeoutive agencies
respo ibte for programs whioh entail l~d use planning shall take flood
into aooount when evaluating plans and shall enoourage land use
'ate to the degree of hazard invotved.

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