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- 2 - o The Flood Response Program funding was historically $150,000/year and was just increased to $300,000/year as included in the current version of the CWCB Project Bill (SB 122). We are sincerely grateful for the support shown by the agency, Department, Board and Legislature. o Overall, the CWCB does not have a high level concern for snowmelt flooding problems this year. However, we will be monitoring rainfall flooding conditions throughout the commg season. . Kevin Houck, Senior Engineer, CWCB Flood Protection Section - o The CWCB implements a variety of tasks for flood preparedness each year. The CWCB has a Flood Response Program for flood forecasts, aerial photography, flood documentation, post event flood floodplain mapping, and mitigation. When there are flood events with damages, we have a consultant on retainer to prepare flood documentation reports. The CWCB also provides floodplain mapping and technical assistance, and has an online library of floodplain documents. o The CWCB and FEMA send out a spring flood news release to remind property owners to purchase flood insurance. There is a 30-day waiting period for insurance policies to go into effect with very few exceptions. o The CWCB is also a Cooperating Technical Partner with FEMA to provide project management and funding for flood insurance studies and flood insurance rate maps across Colorado. o The CWCB works with Colorado communities to review flood ordinances, floodplain permits, mapping needs, and flood mitigation project needs. o The CWCB sends out via email regular spring snowmelt flood outlooks. o One of the exciting new products we developed is with John Henz ofHDR Engineering. It is a web-based "daily flood threat outlook" specific for Colorado counties. It focuses on rainfall and snowmelt flooding risk on a weekly basis. The email is sent out to all floodplain administrators and emergency managers and a website is hosted by HDR Engineering for the CWCB. o The CWCB works with Marilyn Gally at the Division of Emergency Management to help communities apply to the FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program. If communities have needs for projects to stop repetitive losses then contact the CWCB or DEM about the PDM program. . Joe Busto, Engineering Technician, CWCB Flood Protection Section- o The CWCB has a pilot program involving quantitative spatial assessment of snowpack through the NOAA experimental snowpack model known as SNODAS or (SNO Data Assimilation System). o The CWCB has maintained a daily archive of snowpack maps and calculated snowpack snow water equivalent by large river basins since 2004. o The Project is in Phase II where RTi, a consultant firm in Fort Collins, is tasked with coupling high resolution SNODAS data with a NOAA experimental distributed hydrologic model. It is now being calibrated to a few test basins (Colorado River below Lake Granby and below Williams Fork Reservoir, and the Blue River below Dillon and Green Mountain Reservoirs). o The project will compare lumped model and distributed model simulations and draw comparisons. If there is value added then distributed modeling could improve streamflow forecasts in Colorado. The recommendations from Phase II and Phase III might be forwarded to the Colorado River Basins Forecast Centers for consideration. Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning