FLOOD04820

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Evaluation and Implementation of Urban Drainage and Flood Control Projects Completion Report
• Date: 6/1/1974
• Prepared By: CSU Environmental Resources Center,
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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This report basically focuses on the question of evaluation

financing, and implementation of urban drainage and flood control pro-

jects. The question of evaluation is discussed in terms of benefits

and costs, even though many of these cannot yet be quantified. Finan-

cing and implementation are covered insofar as they are related to the

results of the evaluation process,

The report is addressed primarily to the remedial structural

category of urban drainage and flood control problems and to cases

where the investment of public funds is a feasible solution. This

limitation of scope is not intended as an indication of priorities, but

is necessitated by the step-by-step approach of the research and the

limited time and funds available for the effort. Preventive, non-

structural approaches can also be evaluated using the same techniques,

but the analyst must be extremely careful as he considers these approaches

because they require detailed consideration of local priorities, pro-

jections of future growth patterns and the incidence of costs and

benefits on local citizens. These considerations should be included in

evaluation reports as guides to decisionmakers. The analyst must be

careful not to distort benefits and costs or to improperly assume local

priorities when undertaking this type of evaluation.

This report presents interim findings because the research is still

underway. The material presented herein provides a broad approach to

UDFC projects and represents a beginning step into the important problem

area of evaluating, financing and implementation. Follow-on research

will provide additional means for evaluation of the full range of UDFC

projects.

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