FLOOD08324

• Designation Number: 274
• County: Rio Grande
• Community: Unincorporated Rio Grande County
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Rio Grande County, Colorado, Unincorporated Areas
• Date: 5/1/1987
• Designation Date: 5/1/1987
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Rio Grande
County has requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
designate and approve the floodplain areas as set forth in the
aforesaid new Flood Insurance Study; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-l06(1}(c}, Colorado Revised
Statutes, requires the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom;
and

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
designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or
basins and to make such designations available to legislative
bodies of local jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, designation of the said Flood Insurance Study for
unincorporated Rio Grande County does not require rescission of
portions or all of the aforesaid pr~vious designations adopted
by ReSOlution Nos. 193, 194, and 195; and

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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;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver,
Colorado, this 15th day of May , 1987, 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
floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said report; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is
directed to send a certified copy of this resolution to the
Town of Del Norte, the City of Monte Vista, the Board of County
Commissioners of Rio Grande County, the U.S. Soil Conservation
service, the Colorado Division of Disaster Emergency Services,
and the Federal Emergency Management Agency

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