FLOOD07929

• Designation Number: 311
• County: Arapahoe
• Community: Aurora
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Hazard Area Delineation - Granby and Sable Drainageways
• Date: 9/1/1990
• Designation Date: 1/1/1991
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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FPR 311-91

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

January 17, 1991

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WHEREAS. a floodplain information report entitled "Flood
Hazard Delineation. Granby and Sable Drainageways," dated
September, 1990. has been prepared by Kiowa Engineering
Corporation. at the request of the Urban Drainage and f'lood
Control District in cooperation with the City of Aurora,
Colorado; and

WHEREAS. said report includes detailed floodplain
information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels on the
Granby Drainageway from confluence upstream 3.4 miles; Sable
Drainageway from confluence upstream 1.8 miles; and Sable
Overflow from confluence upstream 0.4 miles: and

WHEREAS. the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District and
the City of Aurora have requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplain
areas as set forth in the aforesaid report; and

WHEREAS. Section
Statutes, requires the
assist in the prevention
and

37-60-l06(1)(c). Colorado Revised
Colorado Water Conservation Board to
of floods and flood damages therefrom:

WHEREAS. Sections 31.23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
Statutes. 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; and

WHEREAS. Section 37-60-106(1) (c). Colorado Revised
Statutes. directs the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
des igna te and approve storm or f loodwa ter runoff, channels or
basins and to make such designations available to legislative
bodies of local juriSdictions; and

WHEREAS. the staff of the Board has reviewed said report
and finds tha tit meets a 11 the appl icable requi rements for
designation as approximate floodplain information under the
Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval
of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in
Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1);

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