FLOOD10040

• Designation Number: 222
• County: Delta
• Community: Unincorporated Delta County
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Delta County, Colorado
• Date: 9/1/1983
• Designation Date: 11/1/1983
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

Tongue Creek
Bell Creek
Short Draw
Roeber Reservoir
Seep Creek
Wise Creek
Smith Fork Creek

Reynolds Creek
Leroux Creek
Cottonwood Creek
Roubideau Creek
Buttermilk Creek
Crawford Reservoir
Peach Valley Creek

and other unnamed tributaries; and

WHEREAS, Delta County has requested the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board to designate and approve the floodplain areas as
set forth in the aforesaid report; and

WHEREAS,
1973, requires
the prevention

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

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 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, Delta County officials have stated that they will
regulate the storm and floodwater runoff channels of Zone A areas
on a case-by-case basis ,subject to a detailed hydrologic and
hydraulic analysis by a professional engineer; 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

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 and designate and approve as storm or floodwater run-
off channels or basins those areas as delineated by Zone A in
said report.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conser-
vation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado,
this 3rd day of November, 1983, that it does hereby designate and
approve as floodplain areas those areas described as being inun-
dated by a 100-year flood as described by the floodwater surface
elevations and profiles in said report; and

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