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<br />J <br /> <br />year average this year and this includes the last five years which <br />were very wet. These snow course readings given the touch and go <br />eA~rience of the last few years in this location, and the recently <br />produced flood studies have created considerable concern for the <br />potential for significant flooding in this area this year. The <br />National Weather Service indicates the potential for flooding is there <br />in the form of Hater content, the question is how and Hhen it will <br />come out. If the snohwelt above 10,000' runs later and backs int.o the <br />rainy season in June, \<Ie could have another 1921 situation. Even if <br />the snOl-: pac!< comes out gradually He will still have a touch and go <br />situation considering the condition of the dike and levee system along <br />Henson Creel<. If the present dike system fails it will impact the <br />dmmtoh'fl business area as well as other key public facilities. <br />The present financial constraints on both local and State Government <br />make it impossible to address the problem at this time. The local <br />conununity with a population of some 500 has an extremely small ta;: <br />base and so does the county (Hinsdale) of which it is the County seat. <br />The State is presently addressing a $126 million dollar revenue <br />short.fall and is considering laying off some 213 employees as well as <br />cutting hack on several programs. The State is still involved in <br />disaster recover;\, activities dealing Hith the 1982 Lawn Lake Disaster <br />and the 1984 Western Slope Flood Disaster, both of ,,-hich were <br />Presidentially Declared Disasters. Additionally He have just closed <br />out seven state declared disasters involving some $700,000 in State <br />assistance from 1985. The Governor's emergency contingency fund for <br />this year is all but. exhausted and "ill not be replenished until the <br />nel< fiscal year starting on 1 July 1987. Even then the amount. of the <br />f\md is so small ($lOO,O(){J) as to ,;arrant keeping it intact to deal <br />,-:ith the most dire circumstances. Under these conditions all the <br />State is able to do is provide technical assistance. <br /> <br />Based on this situation and the circumstances described above the <br />Colorado I,ater Conser,~tion Board forwarded their request to the <br />District. It '<as their hope that this situation would warrant <br />consideration as a test case for the advance measures program, as <br />discussed in our meeting in Colorado earlier this year. In this <br />manner hoe might be able to address a potential flood problem that <br />might ot.heI'l-:ise never be addressed. If the situation does not warrant <br />advance measures, then perhaps there is some other Corps program under <br />Hhich it could be addressed. <br /> <br />3 <br />