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<br />final plan preparation stage which the S.C.S. <br />staff must do before any further field work such <br />as stan has been doing is done. <br /> <br />In connection with the Sand Creek Watershed. <br />while it has not been possible to justify a I. <br />report there, this still is a very serious sit- <br />uation so far as the City of Aurora is concerned. <br />I think that future loss of life and extreme <br />damage will be helped considerably by something <br />that the Corps of Engineers is doing now. In <br />legislation last year they were authorized to <br />release information on the levels to which floods <br />in various creeks would come within the water- <br />shed, and authorization to release that publicly <br />was contained in this legislation. So it is the <br />plan to make a public disclosure of this so that <br />some of our more unscrupulous developers will <br />not be able to get down, I thin~ and build right <br />down in the channel as they have done in some <br />of the areas near Denver, simply because the <br />lending agencies will be completely acquainted <br />with the threats to the structures and houses on <br />which they lend money and I think it will help <br />this tremendously. We will proceed, of course, <br />in assisting Aurora as well as other cities in <br />this same situation in developing a zoning pro- <br />gram which will permit them to use these flood <br />plain areas for purposes such that floods will <br />not damage improvements and will not result in <br />loss of life. I did want to point that out. <br />I think it is a significant thing that we can <br />get out of the corps in these areas where they <br />are not justified on a purely economic basis. <br /> <br />The other thing I would like to remark on <br />is the Gunnison River Basin - this portion of <br />this report. ! think perhaps Dr. Clark would <br />like to expand on this too. I should like to I. <br />point out to the Board that the State Planning <br />Commission has, come into this study so as this <br />thing completely develops and we get all through. <br />we will have the complete development study on <br />the Gunnison River Basin which will not only in- <br />clude water and land use in which we are involved <br />with Soil Conservation Service and the Bureau, <br />but will also go to the development of timber <br />