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;:.;,:..~.~ -*" 'v JOHN R. FETCHER Steamboat Springs FELIX L. SPARKS Director Bt=N.:lAMIN F.STAPLETON 0; /hairman, Oenver . FREDEA ICK V. KROEGER . VIce-Chi airman, DuranlJo LAREN D. MORRILL Deputy Director C, M, FU F< NEAUX Walden RICHARD D. LAMM Governor FLOYD L. onz Monte Vista ROBERT A JACKSON Pueblo DAVID L-EINSDORF Crested Butte DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD 823 STATE CENTENNIAL BUILDING 1313 ~HERMAN STREET DENVER, COLORADO 80203 TELEPHONE 13031839-3441 PATRICK A, GORMLEY Grand Junction HERBERT H, VANOEMOER Sterling October 17, 1978 The Honorable Robert Eyeston~ Mayor, Town of Wellington P. O. Box 127 Wellington, Colorado 80549 Dear Mayor Eyestone: The Colorado Water Cons~rvation Board recently received the final Flood Insurance Study and Notice of .Determination of Base (lOO-year) Flood Elevations tor the Town of Wellington. ) The Flood Insurance Study and the Rate Maps will become effective on February 15, 1979, by which time Wellington is required by the Federal Insu~ance Administration to adopt Floodplain Management Regulations that meet the standards of Section 1910.3, Chapter 19, ~itle 24 CFR or the Town may be suspended from the Flood Ins~rance Program. As we advised you by letter on October 25, 1977, the Colorado Water Conservation ~oard is required by State Statutes, Section 37-60-106(1) (c), CRS 1973, and Section 24-65.1-403, CRS 1973, as amended, to revtew, designate and approve all floodplain studies before local governments can legally enforce floodplain regulations based on such studies. Our review of the Flood Insurance Study indicates that the 100-year (base flood) elevattons and profiles for Box Elder Creek have been designated by this board on June 3, 1970, as part of a Soil Conservation Service Study. However, since the FIA Study represents different basin conditions (FIA study Sec. 6.0) base flood elevations must be re-designated. To have the study designated by the board we require a request for designation from the Town Councilor Mayor. Since the Flood Insurance Study and the Rate Maps will be effective on February 15, 197B, the study will have to be designated prior to that time or the town will not be able to legally enforce floodplain regulations and may therefore be suspended from the Flood Insurance Program.