BOARD02476

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

unified law to provide a solid foundation for its future service to the United States.. ..Both
bills have very similar objectives. For that reason, we are convinced that the bills' .
differences in approach can be harmonized." The CWCB and the North American
Council are meeting with officials to use the organic act to put "research in weather
modification" into NOAA's mission. Currently no federal agencies have weather
modification in their mission. Member of the North American Interstate Weather
Modification Council have met with NOAA official's requesting that $5 million be made
available yearly to western states practicing weather modification for a competitive
research and development proposals. The goal is to get weather modification research a
part of a base budget request that will not take funds from other NOAA programmatic
areas.

Numerical Modeling Study: htto://rams.atrnos.co1ostate.edu/clseeding/. CWCB and
CSU recently submitted the third quarter progress report to the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation for the "Numerical Simulations ofSnowpack Augmentation for Drought
Mitigation Studies in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. All reports and graphical maps of
seeding simulations can viewed at the above mentioned hyperlink. The final report is
due to Reclamation in late fall and a presentation at a CWCB Meeting will summarize the
study fmdings.

Town of New Castle Joins the National Flood Insurance Program: Effective July 22,
2004, the Town of New Castle became a participating member of the National Flood
Insurance Program (NFlP). New Castle becomes the third community in Colorado to
join the NFlP during the previous 12 months. The other two communities that have .
joined in the last year include the Town ofJohnsto~ and the Town of Eagle. The Town
of Eagle was a reentry to the program after being suspended at an earlier date. With the
Town of New Castle joining, 232 of Colorado's 332 eligible communities voluntarily
participate in the NFlP. By joining the NFlP, the Town of New Castle voluntarily agrees
to enact a local floodplain ordinance and enforce floodplain regulations in return for the
availabilitY of flood insurance throughout the community and the availability of
additional federal mitigation grants.

CWCB Hosts Floodplain Management 101 Workshops: The CWCB sponsored and
held a series offour workshops entitled "Floodplain Management 101" throughout the
state during the month of August. These workshops, held August 24-27 in Durango,
Glenwood Springs, Colorado Springs, and Greeley. The workshops, co-sponsored by the
Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers (CASFM), were
conducted by Kevin Houck of the Flood Protection Section. Approximately 70 people
attended the workshops, which focused on the basics of floodplain management including
mapping, regulations, and insurance. The CWCB's role in floodplain management in
Colorado was discussed at length. In addition, the roles ofCWCB's other sections were
discussed, and a number of CWCB souvenirs and literature were given away. Feedback
from the workshops has been very positive, and a similar program is likely to be repeated
next year.