BOARD01914

• Board Meeting Date: 12/4/1974
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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of doing what he needs to do.

Mr. Stapleton: Well. our attorney may overrule me. but I don't think
we have any enforcement powers in this board. If the guidelines are
then adopted by the legislature in the form of new statutes that is
another ball game. As I see it. the guidelines are literally what the
word implies. We have no authority to go further than to issue them.
So maybe after this meeting you might discuss with Mr. Moses or Mr.
Sparks anything further to elaborate on. That would be my interpre-
tation of where we stand.

Mr. Blatchley: I really am not talking about the enforcement by your
board or the legislature. When something comes from a state agency
down to a county or city. too often a guideline becomes the regulation
or the law of the land in that particular county or city. This. by
experience. has been a real problem.

Mr. Stapleton: What you are saying is that they might not do their
homeworK and just rely on something that has been put out. and that
then becomes the ordinance of the city involved. Is that it?

Mr. Blatchley: That is it very precisely. That is why we do not take
guidelines so lightly. We are trying to get this clarified before they
do become law in some of the counties throughout the state.

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Mr. Stapleton:

If you would like to explore it further

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Mr. Blatchlev: When I say law. I do not mean statutory law, but county
regulations.

Mr. Stapleton: All right. thank you very much. Ron. Are there any
others that would like to speak on this agenda item at this time?

Mr. Fetcher: I have a question of Larry. On the definition here under
low hazard zone where you limit the height of the flood to one foot.
let's say under eight and the product of that times the velocity
becomes 3. what would be the situation where you might have a flood of
say a tenth of an inch. and when you divide that into three you might
have a velocity of thirty feet per second?

Mr. Sparks: This is one of the things you get into by using a product.
If. in tact, you get a velocity of say thirty feet per second it is
because your depth is considered. The friction alone of the ground
will not permit a shallow depth to flow at a great rate. There will
not be much variation between the relation as we have shown here.

Mr. Fetcher: Well, asa mathematician it bothers me a little bit and
it bothers me particularly under section (b) where you might let' s ~':.,
say have a depth of 3 or 4 feet, and then you get into a product stifl
of a very high velocity. I am a little disturbed by this. You are .
not putting a limit on the velocity.

Mr. Sparks: This is true. mathematically you can come up with this.

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