FLOOD07460

• Designation Number: 394
• County: Otero
• Community: La Junta
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - La Junta, CO, Otero County
• Date: 6/1/1982
• Designation Date: 3/1/1995
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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FPR 95-394

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
721 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

-March 13, 1995

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Special Flood Hazard Information, City
of La Junta, Colorado" dated August, 1977 has been prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Albuquerque District; llIld

WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for the Arkansas River and
Anderson Arroyo within the corporate limits of the City of La Junta, as they were in August 1977; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested by the City of La Junta,
Colorado, by Resolution No. 100, adopted on March 16, 1978, designated and approved the floodplains
described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Floodplain Insurance Study, City of La
Junta, Colorado" dated June 1982 has been prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
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WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for those portions of the
Arkansas River llIld Anderson Arroyo within the corporate limits of the City of La Junta, as they were
in June 1982; and

WHEREAS, the detailed floodplain information in said report dated June 1982 is consistent with
the detailed floodplain information in the report previously designated by Resolution No. 100; and

WHEREAS, the Town of La Junta, Colorado, has requested the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in said report; llIld

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 may provide zoning regulations for IllIld uses on or along any
storm or floodwater runoff ch:mnel or basin only after designation llIld approval by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board; llIld

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate llIld approve storm or floodwater runoff ch:mnels or basins llIld to make
such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and