FLOOD09094

• Designation Number: 471
• County: Weld
• Community: Keenesburg
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FHBM - Keenesburg
• Date: 9/1/1975
• Designation Date: 9/1/1998
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by the
Colorado Water Conservation Board; and

COMPLIANCE WITH CWCR TECHNICAL STANDARDS

WHEREAS, the approximate floodplain information shown on said map dated September
19, 1975 in the Town of Keenesburg is not consistent with the requirements for approximate
floodplain 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-
I); and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the Town of Keenesburg
recognize that there are local stormwater drainage problems within specific geographic areas of the
community, but that these drainage problems are a result of inadequate conveyance facilities that
carry flood runoff water from watershed areas that are less than I square mile in size; and

WHEREAS, the flooding problems within the Town of Keenesburg are due to small
tributary flooding sources that can be appropriately dealt with through local actions, regulations,
and future stormwater capacity improvement; and

WHEREAS, Keenesburg officials have requested, by letter dated August 19, 1998, that
said map remain rescinded and that the FEMA designation of "No Special Flood Hazard Area" for
the Town ofKeenesburg remain in effect as is.

DESIGNATION AND APPROVAL ACTION

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in
regular meeting assembled in La Junta, Colorado, this 21 st day of September 1998, that it does
hereby recognize that there are local storm drainage problems within the community of Keenesburg
and agrees with FEMA's previous determination that there are "No Special Flood Hazard Areas"
within the community for the purposes of federal regulation and the National Flood Insurance
Program, and does hereby recommend to the community that prudent land use decisions,
regulations, planning, and stormwater capacity improvements be implemented at the local level;
and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Colorado Water Conservation Board, after careful
review, has chosen to not designate as approximate floodplain information the storm or floodwater
runoff channels or basins within the Town of Keenesburg described by approximate information on
said map dated September 19, 1975; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is directed to send a
certified copy of this resolution to the Town of Keenesburg; the Board of County Commissioners

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