FLOOD07969

• Designation Number: 362
• County: Chaffee
• Community: Poncha Springs
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Poncha Springs, CO, Chaffee County
• Date: 2/1/1987
• Designation Date: 7/1/1994
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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FPR 94-362

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

Julv 12. 1994

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Water Resources Consultants, lnc" under contract to the Town ofPoncha Springs,
Chaffee County and the Colorado Water Conservation Board, completed a floodplain information report
entitled "Floodplain Information Report, South Arkansas RiverIPoncha Creek, Poncha Springs,
Colorado" in March 1978; and

WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for the South Arkansas River
and Poncha Creek; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservlltion Board, as requested by the Board of County
Commissioners of Chaffee County, by Resolution No, 114, adopted on November I, 1978, designated
and approved the floodplains described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a new report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Town of Poncha Springs, Colorado,
Chaffee County", dated February 19, 1987, has been prepared by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency; and

WHEREAS, said new report includes detailed floodplain information for those portions of the
South Arkansas River and Poncha Creek within the corporate limits of the Town of Panch a Springs, as
they were on February 19, 1987; and

WHEREAS, the detailed information contailled in said new report is consistent with the detailed
infonnation contained in the report previously designated by Resolution No, 114; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Poncha Springs, Colorado, has requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in the aforesaid new report; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Poncha Springs, Colorado, has not requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to rescind any portion of Resolution No, 114; and

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

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that
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