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I they usually do. The funds are eventually obtained through special assessments and other methods designed to recoup direct and indirect project costs from the land developers. In developed urban areas, the financing of projects to correct existing drainage or overbank flooding problems is also best coordinated by the local govern- ment. Here too, various financing methods are available to local government for accumulating the large amounts of funds sometimes required. Other levels of govern- ment do not have the flexibility and choices of financing methods that local govern- ments have. I I Special Districts I I In metropolitan areas, the watershed areas often extend over more than one com- munity. Many of the existing and potential physical problems related to runoff may impact two or more local jurisdictions. The needed planning, design, financing, coordination and regulatory functions required to solve their common problems are sometimes directed by an agency established by the state government on behalf of the local governments. These multi-jurisdictional agencies may be organized for the single purpose of stormwater management, or they may have multiple functions. Denver's Urban Drainage and Flood Control District is an example of a single-purpose agency. The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago exemplifies an agency with two principal functions--wastewater disposal and flood control. I I REFERENCES I I I I 1. Responsibility for Urban Stormwater Mana~ement, L. S. Tucker, paper presented at Institute on Stormwater Management In Urban Areas, University of Wisconsin at Madison, April 29-30, 1975, pp 3-5 (unpublished). 2. "Weather Modification: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Be Going? An Editorial Overview", R. 1. Sax, et al; Journal of Applied Meteorology, Vol. 14, No.5, August 1975, pp 652-672. I I I I 44 I I I I