FLOOD05164

• Designation Number: 361
• County: Weld
• Community: Severance
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Floodplain Information Report - The Slough, Severance, Colorado
• Date: 5/1/1981
• Designation Date: 5/1/1994
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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FPR 94-361

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

May 26, 1994 '
RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency completed a floodplain information
report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Weld County, Colorado, Unincorporated Areas and Town of
Eaton, Colorado, Weld County" dated September, 1979; and

WHEREAS, said report included approximate floodplain information for the Slough in the
vicinity of the Town of Severance; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conserv;ition Board, as requested by the Board of County
Commissioners of Weld County, by Resolution No, 156, adopted on March 17, 1980, approved and
designated the floodplains described in said report, including the approximate floodplains; and

WHEREAS, land which was shown as being in unincorporated Weld County in Resolution No,
156 is now within the corporate limits of the Town of Severance; and

WHEREAS, said land includes a portion of the JOO-year floodplain of the Slough; and

WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has not prepared a floodplain
information report or map for the Town of Severance other than the above-mentioned Flood Insurance
Study for Weld County; and

WHEREAS, a report entitled "Floodplain Information Report, The Slough, Severance, Colorado",
dated May 1981, was prepared by the U,S, ArDly Corps of Engineers, Omaha District and D,L.
Bucknam & Associates; and

WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for that portion of the Slough
from the John Law Reservoir upstream approximately 6000 feet to Weld County Road No, 74&1/2 ;
and

WHEREAS, the detailed information contained in said report revises, on the basis of detailed
hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, the approximate information contained in Resolution No, 156 for the
said reach of the Slough only; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Severance, Color;ido, has requested the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in the aforesaid new report; and