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1987 <br />STATE RIVER REHABILITATION AND FLOODPLAIN <br />MANAGEMENT NEEDS INVENTORY PROPOSAL <br />M. <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />January 1997 <br />Mission: Demonstrate the need for a "Statewide River Rehabilitation and Floodplain <br />Management Program ". <br />INTRODUCTION: <br />At its regular meeting on November 25 -26, 1996 the Colorado Water Conservation Board passed a <br />motion directing the staff "to develop a proposal .. for a statewide flood control management <br />program ... (to) proactively deal with river restoration and floodplam management ..." During the <br />discussion that preceded and followed this motion, the Board spent a lot of time considering flood <br />control within the broader framework of stream restoration/rehabilitation. Also discussed by the <br />Board was the growing need for a loan/grant program separate for the current CWCB Construction <br />Fund with purposes including flood protection, but going beyond to concerns such as delivery of <br />water to irrigation facilities and domestic and industrial water supply systems, enhancement fish <br />habitat, provisions for recreation opportunities and protection of interstate compact interests. <br />Staff discussed what concept should be considered in the drafting of a new state program for flood <br />and stream mitigation. The themes/terms which were discussed are: <br />Restoration "Returns the degraded site to the exact ecological condition it exhibited prior to <br />disturbance." (Munshower,.1993) <br />Reclamation "The construction of topographic, soil and plant conditions after disturbance, which <br />may not be identical to the predisturbance site, but which permits the degraded land mass to <br />function adequately in the ecosystem of which it was and is a part." ( Munshower, 1993) <br />Rehabilitation "Implies that the land will be returned to a form and productivity in conformity <br />with a prior land/use plan, including a stable ecological state that does not contribute substantially <br />to environmental deterioration and is consistent with surrounding aesthetic values." (National <br />Academy of Science, 1974) <br />