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Colorado Water Conservation Board Department of Natural Resources 721 Centennial Building 13' 3 Shennan Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: (3031 866-3441 FAA: (3031 866.4474 STATE OF COLORADO - . 1986 MEMORANDUM Roy Romer Coverf\Of /.,1Imes S. Lochhe~d hecull\'e Direaor. DN~ OClricsC. Lile. P.E. Director. (WeB DATE: January 16, 1997 _ TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board FROM: Laity Lang RE: Agenda Item 4.b , Januaiy 29-30, 1997 Board Meeting - Statewide River Rehabilitation and Floodplain Management Inventory Proposal In response to the Board's request to prepare a proposal to inventory the State's river rehabilitation and floodplain management needs, the staff has prepared the attached proposal. This proposal presents a scope for the needs inventory and the creation of a new floodplain management program which will consider a more broad view of managing the State's stream conidors. The river rehabilitation and floodplain management program must consider the multi- objective management principles that go beyond flood hazard mitigation and flood c:ontrol. .". .- It will be the goal of the new floodplain management prograni to implement the multi-objective approach in formulating new and better methods for stream rehabilitation projects. Colorado bas many natural and scenic stream corridors, as well as many that have been affected by residential, commercial, and agricultural encroachment. A new floodplain management program will present opportunities and techniques that could protect or enhance those stream conidors for flood control and a variety of other uses. Financial resources and funding programs for stream rehabilitation, maintenance, and floodplain management projects are very limited. There is need to institute a new floodplain management program that could provide a funding source in order to complement federal programs and the Board's existing technical programs. The attached proposal presents an introduction to and the purpose of the new floodplain management program, as well as the content of the proposal for the Colorado Water Conservation Board $100,000 funding request. Exhibit A of the proposal presents the existing floodplain management program elements; Exhibit B presents Colorado floodplain facts; andFExhibit C presents a sample floodplain index map which shows the jurisdictional floodplains for a typical Colorado county. The staff will make a formal presentation to the Board at its January 1997 meeting.