FLOOD04092

• County: Delta
• Community: Delta
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Pre-Disaster Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Date: 2/1/2002
• Prepared For: Delta
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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D. Post Flood Activities

After previous floods Delta has done a variety of projects to attempt to mitigate the
flooding. These include: Removal of sand bars, cleaning under bridges, bank stabilization projects,
trail replacement, storm sewer enhancement, etc.

E. Circulating The Draft

The draft river corridor plan has to be publicized and circulated among affected entities such
as state and federal agencies, property owners and other departments in community government.

The plan is available for review by affected citizens and businesses. There was a large
public meeting as part of the review process. Citizens, business owners and agencies, as well as
City staff had the opportunity to review, comment and make recommendations to the plan.

F. Adoption

The recommendations usually involve more than one department in the community.
Therefore, the plan needs to be adopted by the community's governing body. The resolution to
adopt the plan should contain the following:

Official adoption ofthe plan and its recommendations,
Designation of someone who will insure plan implementation,
Designation of priority recommendations, and
Proviso for implementation progress reports.

G. Implementation and Evaluation
The community's resolution which adopts the plan should identifY one individual with
overall responsibility for implementation of the program. Persons involved in the implementation
of the program should definitely be involved in the planning process. Inexpensive, but locally
visible projects, should be implemented quickly so the public sees that the community is doing
something. A monitoring system of program implementation should also be set up so persons don't
forget their assignments.

As a plan is implemented it should be periodically evaluated. It may be determined after a
time that a certain activity would be better accomplished by the public works department than the
engineering department. Such changes need the appropriate approval from the community's
governing body.

H. Responding To Opportunities

A community should always be ready to act quickly to take advantage of opportunities
provided by disasters, heightened public interest due to flooding elsewhere or extra year-end
money. The Limon tornado in 1990 allowed local government officials to implement regulations
which require elevation of substantially damaged manufactured homes in a floodplain (one of the