FLOOD08128

• Designation Number: 69
• County: Gunnison
• Community: Gunnison
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Resolution - FPR 69 - Floodplain Information Report - Gunnison River/Tomichi Creek, Gunnison, CO
• Date: 12/1/1976
• Designation Date: 7/1/1977
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

Floodplain Resolution No. 69

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

July 27, 1977

RES 0 L Q T I 0 !

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Floodplain
Information Report, Gunnison River/Tomichi Creek, Gunnison, Colorado,"
dated December, 1976, has been prepared by Engineering Consultants, ,
Inc. at the request of the City of Gunnison, Gunnison County and the
Colorado Water Conservation Board; 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, GunnisQ11 County has requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve the floodplain areas as 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 pre-
I vention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and
I

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, provide that such legislative bodies of local juris-
dictions 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 Revi~ed 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 local jurisdictions;
and'

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;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the colorado Water Conser-
vation Board in regular meeting assembled iri Denver, Colorado, this
27th day of July, 1977 that it does hereby designate and approve as
floodplain areas those areas described as being inundated by a 100-year
flood as set forth in said report; and