FLOOD08303

• Designation Number: 120
• County: Archuleta
• Community: Unincorporated Archuleta County
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Title: Resolution - FPR 120 - FIS - Pagosa Springs and Unincorporated Areas, Archuleta County, CO
• Date: 6/1/1978
• Designation Date: 11/1/1978
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

Floodplain
Resol. No. 120

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

November 1, 1978

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, a report entitled "Flood Insurance Study,
Town of pagosa Springs and Unincorporated Areas of Archuleta
County, Colorado," which includes floodplain information and
data for the SanJuan River, McCabe Creek, North Fork McCabe
Creek, West Fork McCabe Creek, and Rio Blanco, dated July, 1978,
has been prepared by Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., under contract
with the Federal Insurance Administration; and

WHEREAS, said report describes and outlines the flood~
plain data and information for the storm and floodwater runoff
channels or basins of the study area; and

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Archuleta
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 prevention of floods and flood damages
therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Section 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; and

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 local jurisdictionSi 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
Conservation Board in regular meeting. assembled in Denver,
Colorado, this 1st day of November, 1978, that it does hereby
designate and approve as floodplain areas those areas described
as being inundated by a 100-year flood as described by the flood-
water surface elevations and profiles in said report; and