FLOOD00689

• Designation Number: 136
• County: Arapahoe
• Community: Littleton
• Stream Name: Slaughterhouse Gulch
• Title: Major Drainageway Planning - Slaughterhouse Gulch, Littleton
• Date: 5/1/1974
• Designation Date: 5/1/1979
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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6. The recommendations provide an equitable means for
private property owners to cover potential flood losses
through federally subsidized flood insurance without
requiring the expenditure of obligation of any city funds.

7. The recommended improvements are totally compatible
with the existing and proposed development along the
drainageway.

8. The proposed improvements do not minimize options for
possible future improvements resulting from revised
land uses, but do establish control over the flood prone
area to guarantee correct and nonconflicting use.

9. The recommendations incorporate both management tools
and corrective measures to effectively control the
flooding problems of Slaughterhouse Gulch, ultimately
leading to the elimination of potential flood damages.

10. The proposed improvements are not so comprehensive so
as to raise conflicting legal questions. However, the
realignment of the conduit below Prince Street should
receive a legal review, as well as all other phases of
the proposed plan.

11. There is no increased liability attached to the City
resulting from ownership of additional or enlarged
storm water detention reservoirs.

In general, the recommended approach to flood control and
management on Slaughterhouse Gulch appears to be fair and
equitable to both the private and public sector. It provides
a plan which outlines the necessary structural improvements
required to control flooding from the 100 year storm event and
thus permit development of the adjacent areas presently within
the 100 year flood plain; it defines a flood plain limit through
an area which is presently undeveloped and is planned for develop-
ment as a city park: i.e. an area where improvements will be of
the type that generate little if any flood damage potential; it
defines the flooding problems associated with privately owned
land which has been developed unwisely and without concern for
flooding and proposes an equitable means of covering potential
flood damages; and also identifies areas which have seen addi-
tional hasty and unwise development without convern for pro-
viding the necessary drainage facilities.

Also, the recommended plan requires the minimum expenditure of
public funds for essentially upgrading the present public drainage
facilities and systems on the gulch. A means of recouping flood
losses is open to private property owners, in that they can be
qualified to acquire the necessary insurance protection for
potential flood damage to their property. Also, the plan defines
the area within which the City has the authority and responsibility
to establish the necessary control to regulate land use, with the
objective of minimizing potential flood losses to both the
private land owner and indirect losses to the City. Finally, the

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