FLOOD08337

• Designation Number: 215
• County: Boulder
• Community: Boulder
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Hazard Area Delineation - Boulder Creek
• Date: 1/1/1983
• Designation Date: 5/1/1983
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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

May 5, 1983

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WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has
previously completed a report entitled "Flood Insurance Study,
City of Boulder, Colorado," which includes floodplain information
and data for Boulder Creek, dated January, 197,8: and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested
by the City of Boulder, by resolution' adopted July 11, 1978,
approved and designated the floodplains described in said report;
and

WHEREAS, a new report entitled "Flo'bd Hazard Area
Delineation, Boulder Creek," dated January, '1983, has been
prepared by Muller Engineering Company, Inc., at the request of
the City of Boulder and the Urban Drainage and Flood Control
District; and

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

WHEREAS,
1973, requires
the prevention

Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised Statutes
the Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in
of floods and flood damages therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 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

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