BOARD01357

• Board Meeting Date: 11/19/2001
• Description: Flood Section - Non-Reimbursable Investments - CWCB Statewide Drainage Criteria Manual
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORAD

Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: (303) 866,3441
FAX: (303) 866,4474
www.cwcb.state.co.US

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MEMORANDUM

BilI Owens
Governor

To:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members
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Larry Lang, Chief, Flood Protection Section ~

Tom Browning, P.E., Flood Protection Section h

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

GregE. Walcher
Executive Director

From:

Rod Kuharich
eWeB Director

Date:

October 29, 2001

Re:

Agenda Item 24.e, November 19-20, 2001 CWCB Meeting
Water Supply Planning and Finance, Non-Reimbursable Investments
CWCB Statewide Drainage Criteria Manual

Backl!round
Staff presented a proposal for the CWCB's Statewide Drainage and Floodplain Management Criteria Manual
(Manual) to the Board at its November 2000 meeting. A non-reimbursable investment from the Severance Tax
Fund was approved by the Board, the MEGA Board, and the DNR Executive Director's office for inclusion in the
200 I Long Bill that was enacted by the Colorado General Assembly, Work on the Manual is currently in progress
by WRC Engineering, a private consultant under contract with the CWCB. The consultant is working on phase I of
the manual at this time. Unfortunately, the Severance Tax funds have a one-year time limitation for expenditure
that is not compatible with the schedule for completing the manual. CWCB Flood Protection staff now requests a
non-reimbursable investment from the Construction Fund to complete Phase II of this very important Manual. The
Manual will help guide local floodplain administrators, government engineers, consulting engineers, developers,
and others with statewide drainage and floodplain related projects, ill addition, it will help provide some
consistency in methodological approaches to hydrology and other technical aspects of drainage and floodplain
studies and projects.

The manual's contents are designed to benefit the state's 63 counties and the cities and towns in those counties,
The Project objective is to develop a comprehensive drainage and floodplain management tool that contains
information to assist a variety of users. It will provide benefits that: I) standardize studies and projects to meet
local, state, and federal requirements, 2) unify study efforts for more consistent results, 3) provide technical
information for consultants, floodplain managers, local officials, and other users, 4) guide project development
and implementation, and 5) assist communities and their engineers to meet the requirements of the Board's
rules and regulations for the designation of 100-year floodplain information.

Reauest
The Staff requests that the Board consider a $150,000 non-reimbursable investment from the Construction Fund
to continue work and complete Phase II of the Statewide Drainage and Floodplain Management Criteria
Manual.

Flood Protection. Warer Project Planning and Financing. Stream and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning

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