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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 6 Factors which Reduce the Flood Hazard be forecast, such storms and resultant flooding in specific small drainage areas cannot be predicted accurately and, in any event, forecasts would provide very little advance warning. Flood control improvements, including channel improvements, reservoirs and bridge improvements, as well as good flood plain management practices such as flood proofing and avoiding building in flood plains, will reduce the potential hazards associated with flood prone areas. For the essentially undeveloped flood plains delineated in this report, the enforcement of sound flood plain regulations will best serve the needs of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties on the four study areas. Flood fighting and emergency evacuation plans are also factors which can reduce the flood hazard. No formal plans for flood fighting or emergency evacuation of people and personal property from flood plain areas are known to have been prepared for the four creeks. However, during times of flooding, agencies such as the local police, the sheriff's office, the State Highway Patrol, and road maintenance crews assist in flood fighting and evacuating people from flooded areas. No flood control reservoirs exist within the study areas. Cotton- wood Creek is the only creek on which some channel improvements have been completed to reduce the flood hazard to adjoining property. These improvements are located in the Inverness development be- tween Lanes Road and Inverness Drive, Drawings CC-S and CC-7. Here the channel system has been improved and adequate road crossing structures have been constructed. In the upper reaches of Piney Creek, near the Piney Creek Panchette development, good flood plain management has been exercised to keep building improvements out of the flood plain. This area is shown on Drawing PC-7A. The most effective means to reduce flood hazards, is to be aware of such hazards and avoid them. Implementing flood plain regulation practices will keep damageable land uses and improved property out of the flood plain and out of danger. Flood proofing will tend to reduce damage to the existing buildings and structures within the flood plain. - FLOOD RELATED STUDIES AND OTHER PERTINENT DATA - The National Oceanic and ~tmospheric Administration (NO~~) main- tains year-round surveillance of weather and flood conditions. Although intense cloudburst activity in the general region can Previous flood plain studies for piney, Cottonwood, Murphy and Lone Tree Creeks have been completed for the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA). These studies have been reviewed with Arapahoe County officials but have not been final reviewed or published by the FIA at this time.