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<br />WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board is taking this action under the <br />provisions set forth in 2 CCR 408-1 Rule 9.0.2. (Board Initiative)and Hugo has been notified and <br />their comments have been considered in this resolution; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-1 06( 1)( c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires .the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-2S-11I, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that <br />legislative bodies oflocal jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any <br />storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-J06(l)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins and to <br />make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the information in said new report for Big Sandy and Cemetary Creeks and a <br />local drainage area meets all of the requirements for approximate floodplain informationJisted under <br />the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm <br />or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board has detennined that the hydrologic <br />methodology developed in the Guidelines for Determining 100-Year Flood Flows for ApproximJzte <br />Floodplains is appropriate for designation and approval of approximate floodplain information and <br />for use in simple floodplain analyses for development such as open space, agriculture, farm bridges, <br />bams and individual residential structures, but that the methodology is not appropriate for <br />development involving residential subdivisions greater than 50 lots or occurring. on sites greater than <br />5 acres, commercial construction, industrial construction, construction of public transportation <br />facilities or construction of flood control facilities; and <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in <br />regular meeting assembled in Sterling, Colorado, this 13th day of March, 1996, that it does hereby <br />designate and approve as storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins those areas described by <br />approximate floodplain information in said new report~ dated April 1996, including the floodplain map <br />dated October 15, 1985 which was incorporated into said new report, for Big Sandy and Cemetary <br />Creeks within the corporate limits of the Town of Hugo as of October 15, 1985, which meets the <br />criteria for the regression equation for Arkansas River Basin Subregion Ark-I, QlOO = 1,564.98 * <br />A 0.539 as set forth in the Guidelines for Detennining I 00- Year Flood Flows for ApproximJzte <br />Floodplains, contingent upon the understanding that the Town of Hugo will regulate the storm and <br />floodwater runoff channels (approximate floodplains) on a case-by-case basis subject to a detailed <br />hydrologic and hydraulic analysis performed by a professional engineer, in accordance with the <br />determinations of the Colorado Water Conservation Board regarding the applicability of the <br /> <br />2 <br />