FLOOD09098

• Designation Number: 127
• County: Weld
• Community: Unincorporated Weld County
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 127 - FIR - Big Thompson River
• Date: 2/1/1978
• Designation Date: 1/1/1979
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

Floodplain
Resol. No. 127

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 state Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

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January 31, 1979
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WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled
"Flood Plain Information Report, Big Thompson River, Weld County,"
dated February, 1978, has been prepared by the United states Army
Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, at the request of Weld County,
the Larimer-Weld Regional Council of Governments, and the COlorado
Water Conservation Board; and

WHEREAS, said report describes and outlines the floodplain
data and information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels
or basins of the study area; and

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County
has requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate
and approve the floodplain areas as set forth in the aforesaid
report; and

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WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised Statutes
1973, requires the Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in
the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 and 30-28-111, Colorado
Revised Statutes 1973, 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 1973, 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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WHEREAS; the staff of the Board has reviewed said report
and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
that the Board designate and approve as floodplain areas those
areas inundated by a 100-year, flood (intermediate regional flood)
as described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in
said report; ,

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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado,
this 31st day of January, 1979, that it does hereby designate and
approve as floodplain areas those areas described as being inundated
by a 100-year flood as described by the floodwater surface elevations
and profiles in said report; and