BOARD02000

• Board Meeting Date: 11/15/2005
• Description: CF Section - Special Purpose Funds - Flood Response Fund - Replacement of Funds
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

STATE OF COLORADO

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

Bill Owens
Governor

MEMORANDUM

To:
From:
Date:
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Colorado Water Conservation Board Members
Tom Browning, Chief, Flood Protection Section
November 7, 2005
Agenda Item 25a - November 2005 CWCB Meeting
Special Purpose Funds
Flood Response Fund - Replacement of Funds

Russell George
Executive Director

Rod Kuharich
eWeB Director

Rick Brown
Acting Deputy Director

Background
At the CWCB November 20-21, 2000 meeting, staff provided the Board with an overview of the
CWCB Flood Response Program. The staffs November 2000 presentation to the Board outlined the
objective, discussion, and benefits that the Program would provide to the State. A $150,000 Flood
Response Program was authorized in the 2001 Construction Fund Bill (SB 01-157) and enacted by the
Colorado General Assembly. This legislative action made funds available for the Flood Response
Program on July I; 200L The-fund was created to give the Flood Protection Section of the CWCB
ability to quickly respond and have program funds in the areas of: flood documentation, flood
forecasting and outlooks, post event floodplain mapping, aerial photography, and flood mitigation.

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Discussion
A total of about $125,000 out of the $150,000 is projected to be spent out of the Flood Response
Program by June 30, 2006. The request to refresh the fund up to its full amount is due to the fact that
CWCB will use these funds during FY 05/06 for: 1) preparing individual flood documentation reports
for actual events in Colorado, 2) contracting with John Henz of HDR Engineering, Inc. for Colorado
Flood Task Force activities such as flood forecasting and long range weather outlooks during the flood
season, 3) evaluating and producing 100-year flood and debris flow hazard studies in areas affected by
flooding or other natural hazards, 4) developing scopes of work for flood mitigation activities in
communities where flood loss reduction is needed, and 5) developing on-call services for digital aerial
photographs and topographic mapping for post-flood documentation and flood hazard identification
purposes.

Staff Request
The CWCB Staff requests that the Board consider restoring up to $150,000 to the Flood Response
Fund to refresh and maintain it to the original funding level for Fiscal Year 2006.

Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Board request the General Assembly to restore up to $150,000 from the
Construction Fund to be appropriated to the Colorado Water Conservation Board for the Flood
Response Program.

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