BOARD00021

• Board Meeting Date: 7/12/1965
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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possibility of a similar calamity occurring
anywhere; and

vfuereas, all possible steps should now
be taken to minimize the loss of life and
property damage from any future flood by:

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a. Establishing and maintaining liaison
between local governments and all state and
federal agencies involved in flood prevention
and disaster relief"

b. Making comprehensive channel studies
to identify and delineate the flood plain,
enacting and enforcing zoning restrictions to
regulate structures, including bridges, in
flood plains.

c. Implementing urban renewal projects
in areas damaged by the recent flood, with
special attention to parks and playgrounds
in the flood plain, as opposed to factories
and homes; and

~Vhereas, there have been flood control
projects already authorized or flood control
studies currently in progress which, if pur-
sued to completion, would have minimized both
the loss of human lives and the destruction
of property; and

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vfuereas, it is possible and feasible to
begin early construction of flood control works
already authc,ized and to accelerate the flood
control studies now in progress if additional
funds for the fiscal year 1966 can be made
available to the united states Army Corps of
Engineers, to the united states Soil Conserva-
tion Service, and to the united States Bureau
of Reclamation.

Now, ~herefore, Be It Resolved by the
Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular
session assembled at Gunnison, Colorado, this
12th day of July, 1965, that the united States
Congress be u~ged to appropriate funds in the