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<br />! <br /> <br />1987 <br /> <br />STATE RIVER RJj:HABll..ITATION AND FLOODPLAIN <br />MANAGEMENT NEEDS INVENTORY PROPOSAL <br /> <br />By <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />January 1997 <br /> <br />Mission: <br /> <br />Demonstrate the need for a "Statewide River Rehabilitation and Aoodplain <br />Management Program". <br /> <br />INTRODUCI10N: <br /> <br />At its regular meeting on November 25-26, 1996 the Colorado Water Conservation Board passed a <br />motion directing the staff "to develop a proposal .. for a statewide flood control management <br />program ... (to) proactively deal with river restoration and floodplain management ..... During the <br />discussion that prece(led and followed this motion, the Board spent a lot of time considering flood <br />control within the broader framework of stream restoration/rehabilitation. Also discussed' by the <br />Board was the growing need for a loan/grant program separate for the cunent CWCB Construction <br />Fund with purposes including flood protection, but going beyond to concerns such as delivery of <br />water to iIrigation facilities and domestic and indusnial water supply systems. enhancement fish <br />habitat, provisions for recreation opportunities and protection of interstate compact interests. <br /> <br />Staff discussed what concept should be considered in the dnifting of a new state program for flood <br />and stream mitigation. The themes/terms which were discussed are: <br /> <br />Restoration "Returns the degraded site to the exact ecological condition it exhibited prior to <br />disturbance." (Munshower, 1993) <br /> <br />Reclamation "The construction of topographic, soil and plant conditions after disturbance, which <br />may not be identical to the predisturbance site, but which permits the degraded land mass to <br />function adequately in the ecosystem of which it was and is a part." (Munshower, 1993) <br /> <br />Rehabilitation "Implies that the land will be retUrned to a form and productivity in conformity <br />with a prior land/use plan, including a stable ecological state that does not contribute substantially <br />to environmental deterioration and is consistent with surrounding aesthetic values." (National <br />Academy of Science, 1974) <br /> <br />1 <br />