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shed management planning and implementation strategies. The need for water- shed planning has been typified by some of the problems experienced due to recent flooding. The problems include damaged irrigation facilities, loss of ri- parian areas, wetland loss and degradation, sedimentation of rivers, streams, ditches and other watercourses. RECOMMENDATIONS: . Promote watershed planning throughout Colorado . Encourage increased federal, state and locol government participation in the Colorado Wetlands Initiative . Provide buffer areas adjacent to creeks and rivers to protect flow conveyance areas . Clean debris from ditches and fields . Make repairs to damaged irrigation facilities . Improve vegetative growth in areos subject to frequent flood flows . Coordinate watershed planning recommendations with proposed mitigation measures LEAD AGENCIES: Local jurisdictions, CWCB, CDOW, USDA/FSA, USDA/NRCS, USF&WS, EPA FUNDING: FEMA, USDA!NRCS, USDA/FSA, CDOW SCHEDULE: I mmediate and on-going ISSUE: WM-5 Need for combining structural and non-structural elements to reduce flood hazards in floodplains that have already been urbanized. BACKGROUND: Much of the most severe flood damage experienced in this disaster occurred in watersheds where houses and other buildings cover much of the 1 OO-year flood- plain, including all or a significant part of the channel/flow path. If acquisition for demolition or relocation is feasible (economically, socially or politically) for only a small number of buildings and if f1oodproofing is similarly constrained, that does not mean other sound floodplain management alternatives don't exist. In such cases a combination of acquisition/relocation and floodproofing with structural drainage/flood control improvements can reduce flood hazards and provide open space, recreation, improve wildlife habitat and increase livability of neighborhoods.