FLOOD03730

• Designation Number: 303
• County: Garfield
• Community: Parachute
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Floodplain Information Report - Parachute Creek and Colorado River
• Date: 10/1/1989
• Designation Date: 1/1/1990
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

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FPR 303

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

January 19,1990

R ~ R Q ~ M T l Q N

WHEREAS, the Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, completed in August, 1985, a floodplain information
report entitled "Flood Plain Management Study, Parachute Creek
in the vicinity of Parachute, Colorado, and Roan Creek in the
vicinity of DeBeque, Colorado"; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested
by the Town of Parachute, the 'Town of DeBeque, the Board of
County Commissioners of Garfield County, and the Board of County
Commissioners of Mesa County, by Resolution No. 244, adopted on
November 1, 1985, approved and designated the floodplains
described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a new report entitled "Floodplain Information
Report, Parachute Creek, Colorado River in the Town of
Parachute, Colorado," dated October, 1989, has been prepared by
J. E. Langford & Assoc., Inc.. under contract to the Town of
Parachute; and

WHEREAS, the said new report revises, on the bas is of new
surveys and hydraulic information, the previously designated and
approved detailed floodplain information for Parachute Creek
from its confluence with the Colorado River upstream to the 1989
northern corporate limit of the Town of Parachute and for the
Colorado River from the 1989 western corporate limit of the Town
of Parachute upstream to the 1989 eastern corporate limit of the
Town of Parachute, Colorado; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Parachute, Colorado, has requested the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve the
floodplains set forth in the aforesaid new 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

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