FLOOD08697

• Designation Number: 140
• County: Garfield
• Community: Glenwood Springs
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Glenwood Springs, Colorado
• Date: 1/1/1979
• Designation Date: 5/1/1979
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

Floodplain
Resol. No.. 140

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 state Cent~nnial Building
1313 She~an street
Denver, Colorado 80203

Hay 18, 1979

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, a report entitled "Flood Insurance study, City
of Glenwood Springs, Colorado," \qhich includes floodplain information
and data for the Colorado River, dated January, 1979, has been
prepared by Gingery Associates, tnc., under contract with the
Federal Insurance Administration: and

NHEREAS, said report d~scribes and outlines the floodplain
data and information for the sto~m and floodwater runoff channels
or basins of the study area; and

WHEREAS, the City of Glenwood Springs has requested the
Colorado Water Conservation Boar~ to designate arid approve the
floodplain areas as set forth in the aforesaid report; and

>-1HEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado Revised statutes
1973, requires the ColoradoWate~ Conservation Board to assist in
the prevention of floods and flo~d damages therefrom; and

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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 Watereonservation
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

~rnEREAS, the staff of the Board has reviewed said report
and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
that the Board designate and approve as floodplain areas those
areas inundated by a 100-year flood (intermediate regional flood)
as described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in
said report;

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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Grand Junction,
Colorado, this 18th day of May, 1979, that it does hereby designate
and approve as floodplain areas those areas described as being
inundated by a 100-year flood as described by the floodwater
surface elevations and profiles in said report; and