FLOOD08474

• Designation Number: 275
• County: Pitkin
• Community: Unincorporated Pitkin County
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Resolution - FPR 275 - FIS - Pitkin County, Colorado, Unincorporated Areas, Volumes I - III
• Date: 6/1/1987
• Designation Date: 5/1/1987
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, the said Flood Insurance Study for unincorporated
Pitkin County describes and outlines the floodplain data and
information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels or
basins for streams within unincorporated Pitkin County in a
manner that is consistent with the Flood Insurance Study for the
City of Aspen, dated December 4, 1985, the Flood Insurance Study
for the Town of Basalt, dated June 4, 1987, and that portion of
the Flood Insurance Study for Pitkin County and Incorporated
Areas, dated June 4, 1987, pertaining to the Town of Snowmass
Village; and

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Pitkin 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 37-60-106(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, the staff of the Board has reviewed said revised
information and data and does hereby recommend to the Colorado
Water Conservation Board that the Board designate and ,approve as
floodplain areas those areas inundated by al00-year flood
(intermediate regional flood) as described by the floodwater
surface elevations and profiles in said new Flood Insurance
Study as they apply to stream reaches within unincorporated
Pi tkin County, and further recommends that certa in previous ly
approved floodplain designations or specific portions thereof.
as set forth in said Table 2, be rescinded;

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 delineated
as being inundated by a 100-year flood as described by the
floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said Flood
Insurance Study for unincorporated Pitkin County that were
listed in Tables 1, 2, and 3, dated June 4. 1987. and does

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