FLOOD08353

• Designation Number: 331
• County: Mesa
• Community: Grand Junction
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Grand Junction, Colorado, Mesa County
• Date: 7/1/1992
• Designation Date: 11/1/1992
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colondo 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

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1 )( c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado
Water Conservation 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 information in said new report relating to the Colorado River and
Horizon Drive Channel meets all of the requirements for detailed information listed under
the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and
of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board in regular meeting assembled in Grand Junction, Colorado, this 15th day of
September, 1992, that it does hereby designate and approve as detailed floodplain
information the 100-year floodplains as described by the floodwater surface elevations and
profiles in said new report, dated July 15, 1992, for the study reaches of the Colorado River
and Horizon Drive Channel and does hereby rescind those portions of Resolution No. 79,
dated September 23, 1977 regarding the Colorado River and Horizon Drive Channel within
the corporate limits of the City of Grand Junction on July 15, 1992, as presented in the
November 1976 report, and those portions of Resolution No. 208, dated January 6, 1983,
regarding the Colorado River and Horizon Drive Channel, as presented in the July 6, 1982
report; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is directed to send
a certified copy of this resolution to the Board of County Commissioners of Mesa County;
the City of Grand Junction; the Colorado Office of Emergency Management; the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District; and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

CERTIFICATE

I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by a
majority vote of the members of the Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular session
assembled at Grand Junction, Colorado, on the 15th day of September, 1992, at which a
quorum was present.

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