BOARD02069

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. HEADLEY:

MR. THOMAS :

MR. MOSBS:

MR. STAPLETON:

But our project ends just upstream from the
city limits."

"Whose responsibility is it for channel-
ization in the confines of the City of
Denver?"

I

"The City of Denver is pretty well taken
care of. They have a capacity of about
25,000 second feet, I believe, so they don't
need any channelization through Denver as I
understand it. Isn't that 'right, Chuck?"

"This is essentially right. The channel
gets larger immediately below where we are
going to improve it. It will be, we feel,
sufficient to take care of the flood that
would come through the channel that we are
building up there, which is about a one
percent channel."

"I'll give you one thing for what it is
worth - Congress has recently passed the
Flood Plain Insurance Bill which permits the
issuance of insurance, underwrites the issu-
ance of insurance to people in areas that
historically have been subject to floods.
However, there are penalties imposed in the
way of premiums for anybody who builds in
what has been designated as a flood plain.
From an economic point of view this is some-
thing that anybody who moves back into a
flood plain has to take into consideration.
In all likelihood they would not be able to
get flood insurance for structures built in
what has been designated the normal flood
plain.

I don't know how much of a deterrent
this is going to be but it is an effort in
that direction."

I

"Evidently it is no deterrent. Everything