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<br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-I06(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that legislative <br />bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any storm or <br />floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board to designate and approve stow or floodwater runoff channels or basins and to make <br />such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the infonnation in said new report for Oak Creek and South Oak Creek meets all of the <br />requirements for approximate floodplain information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for <br />the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" <br />(2 CCR 408-1); <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation :Board has determined that the hydrologic methodology <br />developed in the Guidelines for Determining IOU-Year Flood Flows for Approximate Floodplains is <br />appropriate for designation and approval of approximate floodplain information and for use in simple <br />floodplain analyses for development such as open space, agriculture, farm bridges, barns and individual <br />residential structures, but that the methodology is not appropriate for development involving residential <br />subdivisions greater than 50 lots or occurring on sites greater than 5 acres, commercial construction, <br />industrial construction, construction of public traIlSportation facilities or construction of flood control <br />facilities; and <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular <br />meeting assembled in Northglenn, Colorado, this 25th day of January, 1996, that it does hereby designate <br />and approve as storm or floodwater runoff chanJlels or basins those areas described by approximate <br />floodplain information in said new report, dated December 22, 1995, including the floodplain map dated <br />October 15, 1985 which was incorporated into said new report, for Oak Creek and South Oak Creek <br />within the corporate limits of the Town of Rockvale as of October 15, 1985, contingent upon the <br />understanding that the Town of Rockvale will regulate the stonn and floodwater runoff channels <br />(approximate floodplains) on a case-by-case basis subject to a detailed hydrologic and hydraulic analysis <br />performed by a professional engineer, in accordance with the determinations of the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board regarding the applicability oftbe Guidelines for Determining IOO-Year Flood Flows <br />for Approximate Floodplains; and <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the SecretllfY of the Board is directed to send a certified copy of <br />this resolution to the Town of Rockvale; the Town of Coal Creek; the City of Florence; the Town of <br />Williamsburg; the Board of County Conunissioners of Fremont County; the Colorado Office of <br />Emergency Management; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District; and the Federal <br />Emergency Management Agency. <br /> <br />2 <br />