BOARD00209

• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2005
• Description: Flood Section - FEMA Update
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

Attachment to Agenda Item 10
May 2005 Board Meeting

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Shennan Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
Governor

Russell George
Executive Director

TO:

Dan Carlson
FEMA

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

FROM:

Rod Kuharich, CWCB Executive Director
Colorado Water Conservation Board

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

DATE:

December 27, 2004

RE:

FY04 Community Assistance final Report

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Community Assistance Program
FY04
Annual Report

The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) is pleased to offer this final report for the FY2004 CAP-SSSE
program. Our agency appreciates the partnership with FEMA on the important task of reducing flood susceptibility
and flood damages within the State of Colorado. While a number of isolated flood evcnts occurred within the state
during this period, we believe that a much largcr number of flood problems were averted due to the proactive
floodplain management exercised over the past several years.

We are pleased with the increasing community membership in the National Flood Insurance Program, with two
new communities addcd in the past two years, including one during this period. We are also pleased with the initial
succcss of the Map Modernization Program, which is significantly increasing the accuracy and usefulness of the
state's floodplain maps, while reducing the average age. We expect the success of this program to only increase in
the coming ycars as the ncw CAP-MMMS program comes to fruition.

This report cross-referenccs the FY04 CAP-SSSE application revised November. 2003, which discussed the
workplan for the period ofthe FY04 grant. Work performed by the CWCB flood protection section during the
grant period of October 2003 to September 2004 is given below.

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

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Develop a Five Year State Floodplain Mitigation Strategy: A draft ofthe Plan was submitted to FEMA
Region VIII (Region) on July 23, 2004. This Plan was immediately selected by the Association of State

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection _ Conservation Planning