FLOOD05351

• Designation Number: 365
• County: Mesa
• Community: Fruita
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Fruita, CO, Mesa County
• Date: 7/1/1992
• Designation Date: 7/1/1994
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

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FPR 94-365

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

July 19, 1994
RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood Hazard Information, Colorado River
and Tributaries, Fruita, Colorado" dated November 1976 has been prepared by the D,S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Sacramento District; and

WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for the Colorado River, Big Salt
Wash, Little Salt Wash and Reed Wash; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested by the City of Fruita, and
Mesa County, Resolution No. 78, adopted on September 23, 1977, approved and designated the
floodplains described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Fruita, Colorado"
dated September 1979 has been prepared by MSM Consultants under contract to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (not designated); and

WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for those portions of the
Colorado River, Big Salt Wash and Little Salt Wash within the corporate limits of the City of Fruita,
as they were in September 1979; and

WHEREAS, a revised floodplain information report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Fruita,
Colorado" dated July 15, 1992 has been prepared by J.F. Sato & Associates under contract to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency; and

WHEREAS, said revised report includes detailed floodplain information for those portions of
the Colorado River, Big Salt Wash and Little Salt Wash within the corporate limits of the City of Fruita,
as they were in September 1979; and

WHEREAS, said revised report contains additional floodplain information for Big Salt Wash
from a point beginning 500 feet downstream of we confluence of Big Salt Wash and the Main Line
Grand Valley Canal and extending upstream 500 feet; and

WHEREAS, said revised report contains additional floodplain information for Little Salt Wash
from a point beginning 500 feet downstream of the confluence of Little Salt Wash and the Main Line
Grand Valley Canal and extending upstream 4,150 feet; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, through Board initiative, by Resolution
94-354.11, adopted on May 26, 1994, acknowledged the floodplains described in said report; and