FLOOD03857

• Designation Number: 359
• County: Archuleta
• Community: Pagosa Springs
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Title: Resolution - Flood Hazard Analysis - San Juan River and McCabe Creek in the vicinity of Pagosa Springs, Archuleta County, Colorado
• Date: 9/1/1977
• Designation Date: 5/1/1994
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

FPR 94-359

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

May 26, 1994

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Camp, Dresser & McKee, Inc., under contract to the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, completed a floodplain information report entitled "Flood Insurance Study,
Town of Pagosa Springs and Unincorporated Areas of Archuleta County, Colorado" dated July 1978;
and

WHEREAS, said report includes floodplain information for the San Juan River, McCabe Creek,
and North McCabe Creek both in the corporate limits ofPagosa Springs and outside the corporate limits
in unincorporated Archuleta County as well liS floodplain information for other streams in
unincorporated Archuleta County; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested by Archuleta County, by
Resolution No. 120, adopted on November I, 1978. approved and designated the floodplains described
in said report; and

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WHEREAS, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, under contract to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, revised the floodplain information contained within Resolution No.
120 for the stream reaches within the corporate limits of Pagosa Springs only and completed a
floodplain information report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Town of Pagosa Springs and
Unincorporated Areas of Archuleta County, Colorlldo" dated May 2, 1991; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservlltion Board, as requested by the Town of Pagosa
Springs, by Resolution Nos. 92-324 and 94-358, adopted on July 8, 1992, and May 26, 1994
respectively, approved and designated the floodplains described in said revised report; and

WHEREAS, Resolution Nos. 92-324 and 94-358 rescinded the detailed floodplain information
in Resolution No. 120 for the stream reaches described in Table I, attached hereto and by this reference
incorporated herein; and

WHEREAS, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service completed a floodplain information report
entitled "Flood Hazard Analyses, San Juan River and McCabe Creek in the Vicinity of Pagosa Springs,
Archuleta County, Colorado," dated September 1977; and

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WHEREAS, the detailed information in sllid report dated September 1977 for those stream
reaches listed in Table 2, attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein, is inconsistent with
FPR 92-324 or FPR 94-358; and