FLOOD10364 ‎(2)‎

• County: Statewide
• Title: Flood Disaster and Mitigation Plan and Standard Operating Procedures
• Date: 4/26/2007
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: Urban Drainage
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Correspondence

2.11 Carry out maintenance activities to insure that drainageways and flood control structures
function as well as possible.
2.12 Coordinate with DEM and CWCB annually to optimize the District's responsibilities and
opportunities within the frameworks of the Colorado Hazard Mitigation Plan, the Colorado
Administrative Plan for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, and the DRCOG DMA
Mitigation Plan.
2.13 Coordinate with DEM and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) annually
to host a District-wide training session that addresses, at minimum, the NFIP and State and
Federal Disaster Assistance. The NFIP training will address those issues identified in
paragraph 2.6. The disaster assistance training should address appropriate topics such as
damage assessment, timely and accurate documentation, resource coordination, hazard
mitigation planning, post-disaster responsibilities, and available funding, per declaration
type (State declaration, FEMA declarations, and declarations of other federal agencies
[SBA, USDA]). All District communities should be encouraged at this time to establish
their own emergency contingency fund.
2.14 Make local governments aware of funding, as it becomes available, under FEMA's Disaster
Mitigation Act of2000 which establishes the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund, and FEMA's
HMGP and FMA programs, as well as applicable USACE and NRCS programs.
2.15 Other tasks which become apparent and are approved by the Board of Directors at some
future date.
SECTION 3 .0 WARNING PHASE TASKS. Staff and equipment limitations restrict the ability
of District staff to assist local governments during the warning phase of a potential flood disaster.
To the extent possible under the given circumstances, the District will undertake the following
tasks:
3.1 Those documentation tasks coordinated with other agencies under Section 2.10 of this
Flood Disaster Plan.
3.2 Other assistance requested by affected local governments.
SECTION 4.0 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PHASE TASKS. Staff and equipment limitations
will also restrict the ability of District staff to assist local governments during the emergency
response phase. To the extent possible under the given circumstances, the District will undertake
the following tasks:
4.1 Inspect and photograph affected District funded flood control facilities for operational
effectiveness during the flood event.
4.2 Those documentation tasks coordinated with other agencies under Section 2.10 of this
Flood Disaster Plan.
4.3 Provide other assistance at the request of affected local governments.

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