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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In the 1974 legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly

directly attacked the flood-plain problem by describing it as a natural

hazard of State interest relating to the use of land in House Bill 1041

(Title 24, Articles 65.1. 32 and 65 CRS 1973, as amended). Colorado

Revised Statutes 1973, Section 3760106(c) authorizes the Colorado Water

Conservation Board to designate and approve storm flood-water runoff

channels and to make such designations available to legislative bodies

of local jurisdictions. The Board is actively engaged in assisting

local governments develop and adopt effective flood plain ordinances.

In addition, the Board assists and provides financial assistance to

flood plain information studies in Colorado.

In the Denver region, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District

is actively engaged in coordinating multijurisdictional urban drainage

activities as authorized by the 1969 Colorado State Legislature. The

District has the power to plan, design, construct, or acquire, equip,

maintain, and operate drainage facilities and can promulgate flood plain
regulations. The District area includes Denver and portions of Adams,
Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, and Jefferson Counties.

The requests by Boulder and Weld Counties to conduct flood hazard

studies are in accordance with State Legislature House Bill 1041 which

requires local governments to identify and designate areas, such as

flood plains, that are of state interest.

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