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<br />home park. The project included construction of a 100-year capacity <br />channel adjacent to the new road. In order to release the discharges from <br />the channel the decision was made to acquire and relocate the mobile <br />home park. In 1995, Arvada, in cooperation with the District Design and <br />Construction Program, entered into a purchase agreement with the <br />owners of the park. The agreement called for the complete removal of the <br />72 tenant-occupied and 10 vacant mobile homes no later than June 1, <br />1996. Purchase price of the property was set at $1,575,000. Ownership <br />of the mobile homes and subsequent responsibility to remove them from <br />the site remained with the seller. The now vacant site was flooded again <br />in 1997. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Arvada and the District are now pursuing the development of a <br />city park on the site which will become known as GQld Park, as this is <br />believed to be the site where gold was first discovered in Colorado. This <br />will be accomplished in conjunction with the needed drainage and flood <br />control improvements. Other partners in the development of the park <br />include the Jefferson County Open Space Department and the Colorado <br />Historical Society. The park is expected to be constructed in 1998. <br /> <br />When fully completed, this project will have combined flood a. <br />control, transportation, recreation, open space and historical site funding .. <br />into a park celebrating the history of the area; while removing one of the <br />greatest flood damage potential areas in the entire Denver region. The <br />project involved the areas of joint funding, an appropriate after use, an <br />owner and a maintenance funding source. <br /> <br />Boulder Hie:h School. City of Boulder <br /> <br />Boulder Creek, which flows through the heart of the City of <br />Boulder, has a drainage area of approximately 130 mi2 originating at the <br />Continental Divide at 13,500 feet m.sl. and flowing eastward through <br />about 22 miles of steep narrow mountain canyons beforl~ reaching <br />Boulder at about 5,440 feet m.s.l. The 100-year peak at Boulder is <br />approximately 12,000 ft3/sec. <br /> <br />In 1988 the City of Boulder developed a "Comprehensive Drainage <br />Utility Master Plan, F100d Hazard Mitigation Plan" that identified flood <br />prone structures that are of particularly high risk. Since that time the <br />City has embarked on a plan to purchase and remove as many of the high <br />risk structures as budgets and participation from other agencies such as <br />the District will allow. e <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />DeGroot <br />