FLOOD04016

• Designation Number: 123
• County: Adams
• County: Arapahoe
• County: Douglas
• Community: Denver Metro Region
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 123 - FHAD - Little Dry Creek, Adams & Jefferson Counties, Arvada & Westminster, CO
• Date: 6/1/1978
• Designation Date: 11/1/1978
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

Floodplain
Resol. No. 123

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

November 1, 1978

R E S 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, the united States Army Corps of Engineers,
Omaha District, completed in October, 1968, a floodplain informa-
tion report entitled "Flood Plain Information, Volume IV, Denver
Metropolitan Region, Colorado," which includes Little Dry Creek
(Adams County); and

WHEREAS, the Colorado water Conservation Board, as
requested by the Denver Regional Council of Governments, by reso-
lution adopted May 7, 1969, approved and designated the floodplains
described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a pew report entitled "Flood Hazard Area
Delineation, Little Dry Creek, Jefferson County, city of Arvada,
city of westminster, and Adams County, Colorado," dated June, 1978,
has been prepared by Merrick and Company at the request of the Urban
Drainage and Flood Control District, which report updates and revises
the previous information fOr Little Dry Creek (Adams County) as pre-
pared by the Corps of Engineers, Omaha District; and

WHEREAS, said report describes and outlines the floodplain
data and information for the storm and floodwater runoff channels
or basins of the study area; and

WHEREAS, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District
has requested the Colorado Water COnservation Board to designate
and approve the floodplain areas as set forth in the aforesaid report;
and

WHEREAS, section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised Statutes
1973, requires the Colorado Water COnservation Board to assist in
the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-201 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, 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