FLOOD07429

• Designation Number: 60
• County: Morgan
• Community: Brush
• Stream Name: Beaver Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Floodplain Information Report - Beaver Creek, Brush, Colorado
• Date: 4/1/1976
• Prepared For: Brush
• Prepared By: Gingery Associates, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

PREFACE:

This flood plain information report presents the results of a
study of the Beaver Creek Flood Plain in the vicinity of Brush,
Color~do. The report was prepared by Gingery Associates, Inc.,
Consulting Engineers of Englewood, Colorado, at the request of the
City of Brush and in cooperation with the Colorado Water Conservation
Board.
Copies of this report are available for public distribution,
for ~ nominal fee, and may bc acquired from the City or the Colorado
Water Conservation Board. Technical addendurns to the report,
covering the hydrologic and hydraulic studies arc available for re-
view at tho offices of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. These
addenda have not been published in sufficient quantity for public
distribution. Copies of the report are available at the following
locations,

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City of Brush
600 Edison Street
P. O. BOx 363
Brush, Colorado 80723

Colorado Water Conservation Board
102 Columbine Building
1845 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

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INTRODUCTION

Authori~ation

This report was authorized by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board in joint sponsorship with the City of Brush, Colorado.
It is the power and duty of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to:

". . . devise and formulate methods, means, and plans
for bringing about the greater utili~ation of the waters
of the State and the prevention of flood damages therefrom
and to designate and approve storm or floodway runoff
channels or basins, and to make such designations available
to legislative bodies of cities and incorporated towns; to
county planning commissions: and to boards of adjustments
of cities; incorporated towns; and counties of this state.....

as stated in section 37-70-106 (1) (c) of the Colorado Revised Sta-
tutes, 1973.
The cities, incorporated towns, and counties within the study
area may provide ~oning regulations to:
"...establish, regulate, restrict, and limit such uses
on or along any storm or floodway runoff channel or bas~n, as
such storm or floodway runoff channel or basin has been desig-
nated and approved by the ColoradO Water conservation Board,
in order to lessen or avoid the hazards to persons and damage
to property resulting from the accumulation of storm or flood
waters... >>
as stated in Section 30-28-111 for county governments and Section
31-23-201 for municipal governments of the ColoradO R~vised Statutes,
1';173.

Upon revie~ and approval of this report, tho Colorado Water
Conservation Board will designate "nd approve as flood plain areas
those areas inundated by the 100-year flood* as described by the
[loo~water ~urfacc clcv~tio~~ ~~~ ~=ofilc~_ The use of the npslg~~~P~

flood plain areas may then be regulated by the local government.

*The terms "Intermediato Regional Flood", lOa-year flood", and "one
percent flood" can be used i.nterchangeably as they arc all ctcfi'lcd
by the same type of flood event (See Glossary). However, for
brevi tv and clarity, the term "lOO-year flood" \-..ill be used exclu-
sively throughout this report.

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