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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Floodplain Manal!ement Alternatives <br /> <br />Besides floodplain regulations and flood insuranee, there are many aetions that ean reduee the risk <br />of flood damage in a community. Generally these aetions fall into two classes, struetural aetions <br />and non-struetural aetions. Struetural aetions involve the eonstruetion of faeilities to separate <br />floodwaters from property that is at risk. They include eonstruetion of improved ehannels, <br />enlargement of erossing struetures (bridges and eulverts), levees and floodwalls, reservoirs and <br />ponds to detain floodwaters and diversion ehannels and pipes to direet waters elsewhere. Non- <br />struetural aetions usually involve removing people and/or struetures from the risk area without <br />physieally altering the floodplain. Aetions include regulation of new development, the adoption <br />and enforeement of speeifie building eode requirements, floodproofmg of existing buildings, <br />reloeation of struetures to safer sites, aequisition of floodplain (including buildings) for open spaee <br />or other appropriate land uses, publie edueation, flood warning systems and emergeney response <br />programs. <br /> <br />Colorado eommunities interested in exarnmmg or pursuing possible floodplain management <br />alternatives should eontaet the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Knowing the full range of <br />alternatives ean allow a eommunity to develop a program that best addresses its partieular flood and <br />storm drainage situation. <br /> <br />10 <br />