FLOOD09683

• Designation Number: 396
• County: Yuma
• Community: Unincorporated Yuma County
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Yuma County, CO, Unincorporated Area
• Date: 12/1/1984
• Designation Date: 3/1/1995
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

FPR 95-396

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
721 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

March 13, 1995

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Floodplain Information Report, North Fork
of the Republican River, Town ofWray and Ywna County, Colorado" dated November 1981 has been
prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested by the City of Wray and
Ywna County, Colorado, by Resolution No. 192, adopted on August 16,1982, designated and approved
the floodplains described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Ywna County,
Colorado, Unincorporated" dated December 1984 has been prepared by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency ; and

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WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for the North Fork' of the
Republican River within unincorporated Ywna County; and

WHEREAS, the detailed floodplain information in said report dated December 1984 is consistent
with the detailed floodplain information in the report previously designated by Resolution No. 192; and

WHEREAS, Ywna County, Colorado, has requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
designate and approve the floodplains set forth in said report; 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
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

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WHEREAS, the information in the report dated December 1984 meets all of the requirements
for detailed 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 408-1);