FLOOD04440

• County: Statewide
• Community: All
• Stream Name: All
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Colorado Flood Map Modernization Business Case Plan - March 2004
• Date: 3/1/2004
• Prepared For: FEMA
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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SECTION THREE

Program Plan

interface development and maintenance costs. The CWCB anticipates additional IT
requirements to support this function.

. Creation of a GIS viewing tool. The CWCB would make GIS information available for
online viewing for the general public that may not have access to their own GIS
software or that may reside in a county with limited or no GIS capabilities. This
information would be stored on a DNR or CWCB server using ARC-IMS or another
similar Internet/GIS software tool. The basic requirements to make this service
available are server space, interface development, and maintenance costs. The CWCB
IT staff would be responsible for the interface development and maintenance.
Additionally the CWCB currently has licensed Internet/GIS software, however the state
does not currently have a server box for the software. The CWCB anticipates additional
IT requirements to procure an adequate server box.

. Creation of a GIS project management tool. A GIS project management tool would
assist with future floodplain analyses, flood risk analysis, and floodplain mapping
planning. The CWCB has laid out the conceptual framework to create a project
management tool that will allow them to track study status within the state, evaluate the
age ofthe source data for effective flood hazards, analyze flood hazard risk on a stream-
by-stream basis, etc. The CWCB anticipates additional IT requirements to support this
function. )

. CWCB recognizes the need for ongoing coordination with local GIS officials (county
and municipal officials). This coordination will ensure that local officials remain aware
of the GIS flood hazard data available to them, future needs for updates, changes in
software, and new uses for the data. In addition, CWCB needs to be aware of changes
in local data, local capabilities, new local software, and the interaction between flood
data and other GIS data. Besides verbal communications, CWCB anticipates an
electronic information-sharing network of local, state, federal, and private GIS
floodplain officials in Colorado.

Colorado Business Case Plan ~ March 2004

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