FLOOD04566

• County: Boulder
• Community: Boulder
• Stream Name: Gregory, Bear Can, Bluebell Can Creeks, Viele Chan
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Major Drainageway Planning Volume 1, Part C
• Date: 9/1/1970
• Prepared For: Boulder County
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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The same ground or land that may be preserved as open space, greenbelt,
or park and recreation area, can be used for drainageways and flood plains.
So the problem is one of program planning or program identification. There
are numerous potential sources of funds for DRAINAGE. The practicality
of being able to USE such sources id discussed below.

A. CITY

1. The City of Boulder should earmark part of its one cent sales
tax, which is now being used for major thoroughfares and ac-
quisition of open space, to drainage. If $150,000 of the
$600,000 which is now allocated for bridges and highways under
the sales tax were transferred to a "drainage budget," the
very same work that would be done in a bridge program could
be accomplished in the drainaqe program. The purpose of an
adequate bridge is not only to carry traffic over a drainage
channel, but to make certain that an adequate drainage channel
remains to carry off the water. A bridge merely recognizes
that drainage water is flowing downhill to a larger channel.

2. In Boulder, the City's street maintenance budget of $300,000
has a certain figure for cleaning up, repairing, and rebuilding
streets, culverts, grading of gravelled roads, and so forth,
due to surface water not being adequately carried away, It
would seem that a very conservative approach wouid be to attrib-
ute five to ten per cent of the cost of street maintenance to
drainaqe improvements.

3. The City presently i'dentifies in its budget certain drainage
operations which consist of storm sewer maintenance and plan-
ning moneys for design of drainage facilities. It might be
that the City could directly identify, for example, $30,000
of its operating funds for drainage repairs and minor improve-
ments. In order to have a single source of funding from the
City to which federal funds may be matched on a 50-50 basis,
a simple budgeting procedure of putting the above suggested
sources of revenue into a "drainage budget" to be coordinated
by an existing City official would make it much easier to
acquire the federal matching funds and in turn the develop-
ment of major drainage projects.

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4, Any development agreements worked out with subdividers on the
basis of a one-time $250.00 per lot charge, or perhaps $1,000
per acre charge, for drainaqe Improvements, for example, would
go into this same fund.

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