BOARD02476

• Board Meeting Date: 9/13/2004
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Flood Protection Program Director's Report Attachment

Map Modernization Update: Colorado's Map Modernization Program is entering its
second full year. Last year preliminary countywide DFIRMs were completed for two
counties, the City and County of Denver and Douglas County (including municipalities).
Last year's funding also supported the preparation of a preliminary countywide DFIRM
for Boulder County (including rnunicipalities). That study is underway, with cornpletion
scheduled for late December 2004.

FEMA has provided funding for three new countywide DFIRMs for the current year,
each study receiving $500,000 in FEMA funds to cover 80% of the cost of the study.
The three counties are Adams County, Arapahoe County, and Larimer County. All three
studies will include municipalities within the respective counties. FEMA is contracting
directly with the Urban Drainage & Flood Control District for the preparation of the
studies for.Adams and Arapahoe Counties, including the eastern portions of those two
counties that lie outside the District's boundaries. CWCB will direct the study for
Larimer County. CWCB is providing 10% matching state funding for each study. For
the two Denver metro area counties Urban Drainage is providing 10% matching local
funding, and in Larimer County 10% matching local funding is being provided by the
City of Fort. Gollihs, the City-of. Loveland, -and-Larimer Gounty;""Each of these three
preliminary DFIRMs is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2005.

Fountain Creek Watershed Study Update: The u.s. Army Corps of Engineers
(Albuquerque District) is continuing to work on the Fountain Creek Watershed Study
through its consultant, URS. Currently the Corps and the project sponsors (including
CWCB) are finalizing the Scope of Work for the specific portion of the study devoted to
Hydrology and Hydraulics. This particular project will include the development of flood
hydrology for Fountain Creek and selected tributaries, preparation of flood hydraulics (to
a lesser level of detail than what is required for a detailed floodplain information report,
but sufficient for analysis of stream stability and general flooding characteristics), and
geomorphological analyses of the tendencies of Fountain Creek and some of its
tributaries to erode and rnigrate. This information will be used to determine the extent of
problems in specific locations and the comparative severity of those problems from one
location to another. Subsequent analyses in future phases of the Watershed Study will
then develop and evaluate potential alternatives for addressing these problems.

Sacramento District of Corps of Engineers Continues to Reduce Funding in
Western Colorado: Gunnison County, CWCB, and the Sacramento District of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers have formed a partnership to prepare floodplain mapping for
various stream reaches in Gunnison County. Unfortunately, for the second year in a row,
the Corps of Engineers has withdrawn previously budgeted funding for Gunnison County
and transferred that funding to other districts of the Corps. Last year $5,000 was taken
away from the Gunnison County project. July 2004 $10,000 was taken away from the
project, and August 2004 an additional $23,000 was taken away, making a total of
$38,000. There is currently no indication from the Corp of Engineers that any of this
money will be replaced. The project was originally scheduled for completion during the