Laserfiche WebLink
Preface <br />The Colorado Water Conservation Board, under contract to the Bureau of Reclamation, has <br />prepared Floodplain Information Reports for four subbasins of the Upper Colorado River Basin. <br />The reports have been divided into four separate volumes, one for each subbasin: Volume 1, the <br />Yampa River (from Craig, Colorado downstream to Dinosaur National Monument); Volume 2, <br />' the White River (from Rio Blanco Lake downstream to the Utah stateline); Volume 3, the <br />Gunnison River (from Delta, Colorado downstream to its mouth); and Volume 4, the Colorado <br />River mainstem (from Rifle, Colorado downstream to the Utah stateline). Figure 1 on the next <br />page shows the four stream reaches of critical habitat in the upper Colorado River Basin. <br />This Floodplain Information Report, Volume 1, presents the results of a study for the delineation <br />of the 50 -year and 100 -year floodplains on the reach of the Yampa River from Craig, Colorado <br />downstream to the upstream limit of Dinosaur National Monument. The reach is part of the <br />designated critical habitat in the Upper Colorado River basin. The critical habitat was designated <br />by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The report was prepared to provide floodplain information <br />for the Yampa River to agencies, municipalities, development entities and private citizens for use <br />in land use planning and in meeting Section 7 and NEPA - related requirements regarding the <br />Iendangered fishes of the Upper Colorado River basin. <br />D <br />