BOARD02598

• Board Meeting Date: 9/18/1974
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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COLORADO t-1ATER CONSERVATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Cripple Creek Room, Downtown Holiday Inn
Denver, Colorado

September 18, 1974

The meeting was called to order by Mr. Kroeger, Vice-Chairman, at
10:05 a.m. in the absence of Mr. Stapleton, Chairman.

Mr. Kroefer: We will call the board meeting to order. The chairman
is out 0 the country at this time, so you will have to put up with me.

The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the
board meeting of June 21, which were mailed out. Are there any connnents?

Mr. Pickrel: Mr. Chairman, I move that the minutes be adopted as sub-
mitted.

Mr. Ford: I second it.

Mr. Kroe~er: Hugh Pickrel made the motion that they be approved as
mailed out and Lee Ford seconded it. All in favor signify by saying
"aye" - opposed, ''no.'' The minutes are ordered approved.

We will move on directly to item numbers 2 and 3, the proposed criteria
and procedures for the flood hazard identification and the model flood-
plain regulation. Mr. Sparks will take care of this.

Mr. Sparks: Mr. Chairman, I might mention that two board members,
Mr. Kuiper and Mr. Ten Eyck, had an appointment at the Governor's
office and I expect them here a little later this morning.

The board has already been advised previously about the contents of
House Bill 1041, relating to the use of land, as it specifically
applies to this board. The particular tasks assigned to this board by
that legislation were to promulgate a model floodplain regulation by
September 30, 1974, and to assist local governments in identification
of the flood hazard areas. This identification is to be accomplished
by June 30, 1976. The responsibility for this identification and
designation lies with local governments; namely, counties and cities.
We are to provide such assistance as they may require. They have to
initiate requests for assistance before we can respond. This latter
task of trying to identify the floodplains in this state by June 30,
1976 is a rather formidable one. There is actually no way that it can
be accomplished in detail by that time. We are probably talking about
more like a five to ten-year program at least to do the primary iden-
tification and then a never-ending program thereafter to keep up with
the changes that occur. There was sent to the board a couple of weeks
ago our publication entitled "Criteria and Procedures for Flood Hazard
tdentification." (See Appendix A).

We have been swamped with requests from the local governments, primarily