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<br />1 <br /> <br />event. But recent experience indicates that rarity does not mean <br /> <br />impossibility. A large scale storm located .long the Frong Range over the Denver <br /> <br />region is an eventual certainty. The fiypothetical aspect of this futnre <br /> <br />storm is that it would occur at the present stage of population and develop- <br /> <br />ment in the Denver metro area. This comparison of two major floods and <br /> <br />the losses involved in each has been undertaken here by analysis of four <br /> <br />major aspects inherent to both floods: <br /> <br />(1) the characteristics of the <br /> <br />storms, (2) the impact of the storms on Denver drainaqe pattern, (3) the <br /> <br />changing population and development at risk at the time of the storm, and <br /> <br />(4) mitigative measures in effect at the time of the storm that would <br /> <br />lessen impact. Through analysis of these four variables, past losses <br /> <br />in the 1965 storm are compared to potential losses in the hyPothetical <br /> <br />contemporary storm. <br /> <br />; <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />-6- <br />