BOARD01669

• Board Meeting Date: 1/14/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. SPARKS:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. SPAR1<S I

successful, to undertake a state-wide program
of this very thing. Maybe we ought to be at
least prepared for it if it is forthcoming."

"The people who have been flooded are
always worried about the future. People who
have not yet been flooded are rather inert.
It is a question of the danger being demon-
strated. We intend to get more aggressive
in this field.

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The flood control plans for the metro-
politan area are now virtually completed with
one exception. That exception is the threat
from Clear Creek. We may have to initiate
some action for Clear Creek because local
authorities in some cases have not been
responsive to what we consider to be a con-
siderable flood threat.

As an example. many of you are familiar
with the intersection of Wadsworth Boulevard
and Interstate 70. As you near that inter-
section on Interstate 70 there is a drive-in
theater. Just this side of that drive-in
theater there is a junkyard. In the junkyard
is a pile of automobiles stacked several deep
along the banks of the stream. Some of these
automobiles have already fallen into the
stream. With even a minor flood on Clear
creek, tons of debris could be washed into
the stream and create a flood hazard to that
portion of Jefferson County."

"What is the criteria for priority? How
do you establish this?"

"The criteria for the priority is based
upon the known repetition of the floods.
Where we have a record of constant flooding
we give that area the highest priority. wpere
we have a limited record we give that the
lowest priority. We simply have to go by the
experiences known to us."

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