FLOOD07862

• Designation Number: 130
• County: Clear Creek
• Community: Idaho Springs
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 130 - FIS - Idaho Springs
• Date: 5/1/1978
• Designation Date: 1/1/1979
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

Floodplain
Resol. No. 130

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COLORi\DO HATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building.
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado B0203

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January 31, 1979

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, a report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, City
of Idaho Springs, Colorado," which includes floodplain information
and data for Clear Creek, Chicago Creek, Soda Creek, and Virginia
Canyon, dated May, 1978, has been prepared by Black & Veatch
Consulting Engineers under contract with the Federal Insurance
Administration; and

WHEREAS, said report describes and outlines the floodplain
data and information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels
or basins of the study area: and

WHEREAS, the City of Idaho Springs has requested the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve the
floodplain areas a.s set forth in the aforesaid report; and

) WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised Statutes
1973, requires the Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in
the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 and 30-28-111, Colorado
Revised Statutes 1973, provide that such legislative bodies of
local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses
on or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only
after designation and approval by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board; ahd

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1) (c), Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, directs the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins
and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of
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WHEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said report
and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
that the Board designate and approve as floodplain areas those areas
inundated by a 100-year flood (intermediate regional flood) as
described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said
report;

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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado,
this 31st day of January, 1979, that it does hereby designate and