FLOOD09030

• Designation Number: 302
• County: Jefferson
• Community: Edgewater
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Edgewater
• Date: 8/1/1989
• Designation Date: 11/1/1989
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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FPR 302

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
721 State Cencennial Building
1313 Shecman Street
Denver. Colorado 80203

NovembeC 14. 1989

R ~ li Q ~ g I l Q N

WHEREAS. URS Company completed in October 1977 a floodplain
information report entitled "Flood Hazard Area Delineation.
Sloans Lake Basin" for the urban Drainage and Flood Control
District. the City and County of Denver. the City of Edgewater.
the City of Lakewood. and the City of Wheat Ridge; and

WHEREAS. the Colorado Water Conservation
requested by the Urban Draina9"e and Flood Control
Resolution No. 94. adopted 011 January 19. 1978.
designated the floodplain described in said report;

Board. as
District. by
approved and
and

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WHEREAS. a new report entitled "Flood Insurance Study. City
of Edgewater. Colorado. Jeff13rson County." dated August 15.
1989. has been prepared. which includes engineerinq data from a
report entitled "Upper Sloans Lake Basin. Report On 100-Year
Flood Plain Revisions. As-Buil t Flood Plain Cond i tions". dated
December 12. 1986. which rePorts describe and outline the
100-year floodplains for the storm and floodwater runoff
channels tor the study reaches; and

WHEREAS. the City of Edgevlater. Colorado has requested the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve the
floodplains set torth in the atoresaid new reports; and

WHEREAS. Section 37-60-106(l)(c). COlorado Revised
Statutes. requires the Color~do Water Conservation Board to
assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom;
and

WHEREAS. Sections 31-23-30~ and 30-28-111. Colorado Revised
Statutes. provide that legis lati ve bodies of loca 1
jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on
or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only
after designation and appCoval 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

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