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• Board Meeting Date: 11/19/2008
• Description: CF Section – En-bloc Non-Reimbursable Investments - Flood Response Program Refreshed
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Water Project Construction Program - Project Data
Non-Reimbursable Investment
Grantee: County:
Colorado Water Conservation Board Statewide
Project Name:
Colorado Flood Response Program Fund
Project Type
: Program Funds for post event floodplain mapping, flood forecasting, aerial photography, flood
mitigation and flood documentation
Drainage Basin: Water Source
All River Basins in Colorado : N/A
Total Project Cost Funding Source
: $300,000 : CWCB Const. Fund
Type of Grantee Median Household income
: State Government : N/A
CWCB Non-Reimbursable Inv.: Interest Rate
$300,000 (refresh up to) : N/A Term: N/A
The CWCB and General Assembly authori zed $150,000 for the Flood Response Program Fund
(Fund) in the 2001 Construction Fund Bill. The Fund was created to give the CWCB the ability
to quickly respond to events and have program funds for: flood docum entation, flood forecasting
and outlooks, post event floodplain mapping, aerial photography, and flood mitigation. This
amount was increased in the 2007 Construction Fund Bill to $300,000 to reflect the increased
cost of performing existing functi ons plus the added services. Prev ious separate accounts for the
added services were rolled into the Fund fo r the sake of efficiency and accountability.
The current request is to once again refr esh the Fund up to $300,000 for FY 09/10 for: 1)
preparation of flood documentation reports for actua l events, 2) contract with consulting firms
for flood forecasting and weather outlooks during the spring/summer flood season, plus a web-
based daily flood threat bulletin, 3) ongoing wo rk and increased demand for evaluating and
producing 100-year flood and debris flow hazards in areas affected by natural disasters, 4) assist
in flood mitigation activities in communities where flood loss reduction is needed, and 5)
develop on-call services for digital/aerial imagery and mapping for post-flood
documentation/flood hazard identification. Staff r ecently added capabilities to enhance the NWS
products and to provide regional flood outlooks. There is a grow ing need to re-evaluate flood
There have not
hydrology, hydraulics, and levees for use in floodplain studies across as well.
been large flood disasters recently, so Staff ha s responsibly used the Fund as needed and
recognizes that the fully authorized amount would be used major flood years.
Recent Fund
expenditures are:
FY06
Various Projects (outlined in FY 08 memo) totaling $74,359
FY07
Environmental Systems Flood Research $810
Colorado Press Service Newspaper Flood Clippings $135
HDR Engineering Weather and Flood Forecasting $35,745
ICON Eng Flood Documentation $42,869
Miscellaneous Section Operating Expenses $2,756
FY08
HDR Engineering Weather and Flood Forecasting $67,000
Larimer County Boxelder Creek Flood Mitigation Preliminary Design $25,000
Town of Granada Levee Comp liance Assistance $37,304
Archuleta County Landslide-Related Flood Monitoring $3,320
FY09 (to date and anticipated future obligations)
HDR Engineering Weather and Flood Forecasting $70,000
Various Flood Documentation $50,000
Various Various Floodplain Analyses (Proposed) $50,000
Various Levee Compliance Assi stance (Anticip ated) $100,000
TOTAL $559,298

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