WSP09291

• File Number: 8220.200.05.P
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 5/3/1979
• Author: USACOE
• Title: Transcript of a Public Hearing for Re-evaluation of A Flood Control Operation Plan for Hoover Dam: Yuma AZ
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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PRESIDING OFFICER: Yes, sir, as part of the

presentation that I made and one of the reasons to make up

the card is to keep you on -- all of you on our mailing list

so that you know what's happening.

MR. STUTZ: Very good, sir.

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PRESIDING OFFICER: And I certainly hope, sir;

in case of the Red Cross or the people interested in disaster

work, that once we get into a specific plan and work up

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warnings and evacuations, certainly disaster-related

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organizations and/or the Red Cross are going to be at least

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notified and invited to participate.

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MR. STUTZ: Yes, sir, that's very important

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to me because our floodplains down here have different levels

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have now, that the Yuma county engineers used, can we depend

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on those and say that the floodplain that that shows will be

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the limit whenever you are speaking of a floodplain or are

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you speaking on ten (10) foot higher than what they show?

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PRESIDING OFFICER: I believe Yuma County's

"I flood control regulations are probably based on the FIA maps

that were furnished the Federal insurance adrninistrato~s

land or maps which were probably hundred year (100) frequency

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