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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. DIEFFENDERFERI <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. DIEFFENDERFERI <br /> <br />Boulder finished a study on Boulder Creek, if <br />memory serves me right, between Districts 28 <br />and 38, approximately a half mile, and to <br />overcome those problems that half a mile has <br />been estimated to cost $550,000 and if you take <br />that on a mileage basis you are talking at the <br />rate of $1 million a mile. So it seems to me <br />that it would be better sense to begin to use <br />some preventive medicine and that's all these <br />flood plain regulations in Boulder County are <br />intended to be. <br /> <br />'!'hank you." <br /> <br />"Thank you. <br /> <br />Would you like to address yourself to <br />this?" <br /> <br />"If I may." <br /> <br />"If you will just come up to this micro- <br />phone, please." <br /> <br />"My name is Ted Dieffenderfer. I am <br />director of operations for the City of Boulder <br />and also vice-chairman of the Flood Control <br />and Storm Drainage Committee for the Denver <br />Regional Council of Governments. We have done <br />considerable work in this area, as you are <br />probably aware of, in the development of the <br />criteria manual, etc. I would like to relate <br />only to the City of Boulder. <br /> <br />It is imperative that we have a designa- <br />tion by this body of the flood plain zone if <br />we are to properly control development within <br />the city so that we can protect the people <br />that may wish to develop in these areas. In <br />reference to a remark that was made about the <br />flood plain and the dams, and so forth, there <br />is nothing, as I understand it, that as im- <br />provements are made upstream or downstream that <br />may reduce the width of the flood plain, to <br />come back and amend that flood plain before <br />this body. Is that correctf Stan?" <br />