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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />- 3 - <br /> <br />· Georgetown/Silver Plume charmel improvements (Clear Creek County) - after 1995 flood <br />. Basalt River Master Plan (Eagle and Pitkin Counties) - after 1995 flood <br />. West Vine Drainage flood control project (Larimer County) - after 1997 flood disaster <br />. Sterling/Logan County flood control project - after 1997 flood disaster <br />. Prowers County sewer lagoon protection project - after 1999 flood disaster <br />· North La Junta floodprone homes acquisition project - after 1999 flood disaster <br /> <br />Some local and regional entities in Colorado have prepared their own studies, but many <br />communities have not done so. Outside of the Denver Urban Drainage and Flood Control <br />District and a very few selected localities, funding has been unavailable or extremely limited at <br />the local level. In many cases, development in or near floodplains has gone on with little or no <br />floodplain engineering of adequate technical quality. The result is that many maps in <br />Colorado are simply old and/or unreliable! There is no real source of funding to reasonably <br />meet the needs for new maps, technical revisions, and updates. Local govermnents are usually <br />able and willing to provide cost-share funding for such, but they are not able to carry the entire <br />burden of the study cost. <br /> <br />While in the recent past the Water Conservation Board's role has consisted primarily of <br />technical assistance, in the last two years the Board has funded several floodplain mapping <br />projects throughout the state. Two years ago the Board allocated $250,000 for five floodplain <br />studies, and last year the Board allocated $100,000. Attached Map 1 (Current and Completed <br />CWCR Floodplain Mapping Projects) shows the progress that has been made possible <br />through that funding and related funding partnerships with other entities. Partnering with local <br />govermnents and with federal agencies has allowed that state money to go farther. Attached <br />Map 2 (High Priority Proposed CWCR Floodplain Mapping Projects) gives an indication of <br />some of the future floodplain mapping that could be accomplished with consistent state <br />funding, <br /> <br />Funding from this proposed program would allow the CWCB to partner with local <br />govermnents (and with the Corps of Engineers and FEMA) to provide, on an ongoing basis, <br />much-needed floodplain mapping revisions and updates for the CWCB's top priority stream <br />reaches in the state. Those local govermnental entities which. requested and received state <br />financial assistance would benefit by receiving accurate and up-to-date floodplain mapping. <br />They could, as appropriate, design and implement flood control projects based on the new <br />floodplain mapping. Some of those projects might be financed through CWCB Construction <br />Fund loans. <br /> <br />Specific Request <br />At this time, the staff of the Flood Protection Section is requesting the formal creation of a <br />Floodplain Mapping Program to allow the CWCB to continue its current floodplain mapping <br />efforts in the long term. To date there has been no continuous state funded program; rather. <br />there has been a series of independent armual requests for funding. Staff is not making a dollar <br />request at this time but proposes to develop a specific request and submit it to the Board at the <br />November 2002 CWCB meeting. CWCB funds, if authorized by the Board and the General <br />Assembly, would be available for engineering analyses and floodplain delineation studies, to <br />be conducted on a statewide basis. Matching funds and/or topographic mapping will have to <br />be obligated by the appropriate local entities to allow the CWCB's limited funding to map as <br /> <br />Flood Protection. Water Project PlanniIlg and Financing. Stream and Lake Protection <br />Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning <br />