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• Board Meeting Date: 9/17/2008
• Description: Director's Report - CWCB Director
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

COLORADO ASSOCIATION OF STORMWATER AND FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS
CONFERENCE PREVIEW: The Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers
(CASFM) is the second largest flood mitigation chapter in the country with over 700 members. CASFM
hosted its 19th Annual Conference in Crested Butte on September 10-12, 2008. This will be
unquestionably the largest and most comprehensive CASFM conference ever (with the exception of last
year, in which the CASFM conference was combined with the triennial Arid Regions Conference, a
regional conference cohosted by the Association of State Floodplain Managers). With over 300
participants preregistered, it is already 40% larger than the previous record attendance in 2006. The
conference theme this year will be "High Elevation, Low Impact -Sustainable Stormwater
Management". The conference featured a keynote address and plenary session discussing decision
making regarding Stormwater management and Low Impact Development as well as 42 concurrent
presentations covering a wide variety of topics related to Foodplain and Stormwater management. CWCB
staff member Kevin Houck is the Chair of CASFM and delivered the opening and closing remarks, and he
also taught the review session for the Certified Floodplain Manager exam, which is being taken by a
record 52 attendees. Concurrent sessions were given at the conference by Kevin Houck and Joe Busto. A
post conference report will be given in the November Directors Report. (Kevin Houck)
HEALTHY RIVERS FUND: The Designees of the Healthy Rivers Fund agreed with staff s
recommendation to fund 9 projects for a total of $193,000. This amount is more than double any
previous year's allotment. Staff was very impressed with the applications received. They were well
developed and communicated a continued need for watershed restoration funding all around the state.
Staff will notify the applicants of the grant awards by the end of September. Staff will continue to work
with the applicants to fine tune scopes of work and complete the contracting process, ideally before year's
end. (Kevin Houck)
FLOODPLAIN MAP MODERNIZATION UPDATE:
FEMA Funding for FY08 projects
The CWCB received nearly $1.2 million from FEMA, $236K of in-kind value matching
contributions and $48K in matching funding from local communities and $339K in State match
funds for the FY08 Map Modernization DFIRM projects in Colorado. Work is to be done by
Anderson Consulting Engineers and PBS&J.
Coordination efforts continue with FEMA and local communities in the effort of properly
identifying the risk behind levees. The County projects which are going through levee and/or
landforms which are acting like levees mapping updates are: Boulder, Pueblo, El Paso, and Weld
Counties. Counties with known levees that are not currently going though mapping updates are
Morgan, Prowess, Mineral, Alamosa, Bent and Las Animas.
FEMA RiskMAP PROGRAM:
FEMA has operated the Map Modernization program since 2004. This was a five year program
with a nationwide budget of $1 billion. This initiative will continue in FY09 with the next phase
of Map Modernization called RiskMAP. Risl~1VIAP will combine flood hazard mapping, risk
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