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<br />Colorado Geological Survey <br /> <br />Monitor landslide and mudflo" potential. <br /> <br />Natural Res. Conservation Service <br /> <br />Monitor snowpack and issue reports. <br /> <br />National Weather Service <br /> <br />7-day weather reports and issuance of statements and warnings to <br />the public. <br /> <br />Federal Emergency Mgmt. Agency <br /> <br />Flood insurance, recovery, preparedness and mitigation activities. <br /> <br />u.S. Army Corps of Engineers <br /> <br />Flood disaster response programs, technical assistance for <br />preparedness and mitigation, Flood protection through reservoir <br />operations. <br /> <br />u.S. Geological Survey <br /> <br />Monitor stream flow gaging stations in Colorado. <br /> <br />U.S. Bureau of Reclamation <br /> <br />Flood protection through reservoir operations. <br /> <br />John Henz Meteorlogical Services <br /> <br />30-day weather reports and issue statements and warnings to <br />Colorado Flood Task Force. <br /> <br />During the months of May and June, the Flood Task Force met each Monday morning <br />with briefings to the public and media about the flood threat status. Sometimes those briefings <br />weren't that pleasant since high water contributed to twenty-one flood-related deaths. Nor when <br />agricultural levees broke in Weld and Logan counties from Platteville to Sterling, inundating <br />thousands of acres of cropland. Nor when, despite a valiant sandbagging flood fight by <br />Georgetown residents to reduce the impacts of high water on South Clear Creek, 14 homes <br />received flood damage. <br /> <br />That's not to say there weren't damages and loss of life. Flood damages are estimated <br />to be $46.6 million. Many of the flood mitigation strategies which were implemented during the <br />1984 and 1993 flood seasons provided the necessary protection in such places like Redstone, <br />Paonia, Hotchkiss, Grand Junction, Crested Butte, Gunnison and Delta, Routt, Mesa and Pitkin <br />Counties. <br />