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<br />FPR 96-407 <br /> <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />721 State Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br /> <br />January 25, 1996 <br /> <br />RESOLUTION <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency completed a floodplain information map <br />entitled ''Flood Insurance Rate Map, Town of.Rockvale, Colorado, Fremont County", dated October 15, <br />1985; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, said map includes approximate floodplain information for Oak Creek and South Oak <br />Creek within the corporate limits of the Town of Rockvale as of October 15,1985; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board has not designated and approved said map; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, a new floodplain information report entitled ''Floodplain Information Report, Town of <br />Rockvale, Colorado, Fremont County", dated December 22, 1995 has been prepared by the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, said new report for the Town of Rockvale includes approximate floodplain information <br />for Oak Creek and South Oak Creek within the corporate limits of the Town of Rockvale as of October 15, <br />1985; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, said new report incorporates the floodplain delineations of the Flood Insurance Rate Map <br />dated October 15,1985; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the hydrology in said new report for Oak Creek and South Oak Creek has been estimated <br />in accordance with the Guidelines for Determining IOO-Year Flood Flowsfor Approxinuzte Floodplains; <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the lOO-year flow for Oak Creek and South Oak Creek is estimated by utilizing the <br />regression equation for Arkansas River Basin Region 3, Q,oo = 1089.27 * A'3S, where Q,oo is the loo-year <br />peak flow in cubic feet per second and A is the upstream (contributing) drainage area in square miles; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Town of Rockvale, Colorado, has requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />to designate and approve the approximate floodplain information set forth in the aforesaid new report <br />dated December 22,1995; and <br />