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As ~tr. Slizeski has stated, if anybody had looked at the reports we have already issued on the South Platte, they would have seen the flood plain area. I have a couple of those reports here and they show almost exactly the area that ~las inundated by that recent I flood. It behooves some of the cities to take a look at these flood control reports that are issued and to accomplish zoning accordingly. It is not possible by any co~bination of struc- tures anywhere in the State of Colorado to control every flood that occurs. This cannot be done. All we can do j.G consider the most dangerous areas and plan accordingly. An even greater potential danger than Plum Creek is the Bear Creek drainage. Some years ago the Corps of Engineers prepared a prelimi- nary plan for the control of Bear Creek. This involved a reservoir just below and east of the to\m of Horrison. The plan has been on the drawing boards ever since. No one has been interested. However, I think the people along Bear Creek should get interested because this is the greatest and most destructive potential in the Denver area, plum Creek notwithstanding, for the simple reason that Bear Creek has a large drainage area, the fall is quite steep, and homes and shopping centers have been built right dmm to the edge of Bear Creek through- out much of its length. If the flood that occurred on Plum Creek had occurred on Bear Creek, the damages would have been much greater and the loss of life would have raen consider- ably higher. ,'Ie can't predict where these floods are going to occur. They can happen anywhere. We may never have another similar flood on Plum Creek in a hundred years, but the chances are I that it will occur again in the future. Such a flood will also occur on Bear Creek. This, we think, is an urgent priority, the control of Bear Creek, and as we go on north, Clear Creek also. As you lmm1, the interstate high- way has now usurped much of the channel of