Agenda Item 4b: Statewide River Rehabilitation and Floodplain Management Proposal

• Description: ARCA
• State: CO
• State: KS
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/16/1997
• Author: Larry Lang, CWCB
• Title: Agenda Item 4b: Statewide River Rehabilitation and Floodplain Management Proposal
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Board Memo

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
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Denver, Colorado 80203
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STATE OF COLORADO
MEMORANDUM
DATE: January 16, 1997 _
TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board
FROM: Larry Lang
Roy Romer
Governor
James S. Lochhead
Executive Director, DNR
Davies C. Lile, P.E.
Director, CWCB
RE: Agenda Item 4.b , January 29 -30, 1997 Board Meeting -
Statewide River Rehabilitation and F000dplain Management Inventory Proposal
In response to the Board's request to prepare a proposal to inventory the State's river
rehabilitation and floodplain management needs, the staff has prepared the attached proposal.
This proposal presents a scope for the needs inventory and the creation of a new. floodplain
management program which will consider a more broad view of managing the State's stream
corridors. The river rehabilitation and floodplain management program must consider the
objective management principles that go beyond flood hazard mitigation and flood control.
It will be the goal of the. new floodplain management program to implement the multi- objective
approach in formulating new and better methods for stream rehabilitation projects. Colorado has
many natural and scenic stream corridors, as well as many that have been affected by residential,
commercial, and agricultural encroachment. A new floodplain management program will
present opportunities and techniques that could protect or enhance those stream corridors for
flood control and a variety of other uses.
Financial resources and funding programs for stream rehabilitation, maintenance, and floodplain
management projects are very limited. There is need to institute a new floodplain management
program that could provide a funding source in order to complement federal programs and the
Board's existing technical programs.
The attached proposal presents an introduction to and the purpose of the new floodplain
management program, as well as the content of the proposal for the Colorado Water
Conservation Board $100,000 funding request. Exhibit A of the proposal presents the existing
floodplain management program elements; Exhibit B presents Colorado floodplain facts; and
Exhibit C presents a sample floodplain index map which shows the jurisdictional floodplains for
a typical Colorado county.
The staff will make a formal presentation to the Board at its January 1997 meeting.