FLOOD05062

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Colorado Flood Awareness Day
• Date: 7/31/1981
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Miscellaneous

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EXECUTIVE ORDER
PROCLAMATION
FLOOD AWARENESS DAY
IN M~OI.t Y OF nll3 .llG THOMPSON FI.OO))
July 31, 1981

WHEREAS, 1981 marks the fifth anniversary ot the devastating Oil; Thumpson
flood; and

. WHEREAS, many people were killed and many others sufIered extensive
property damage; and

WHERE.AS. the flood cost the Federal, Sti:\te, and Larimer County governments,
as well as private contributors, iI tulal or 56.1 million dollars; and

WHEREAS, the Big Thompson Flood of 1976 was the most recent and most
highly publicized major Hood disaster to aClect Colorado, yet it was
not a unique event; and

. WHEREAS, throughout Colorado history severe .flooding has occurred regularly
in various regions of the State; and

WHI3RIlAS, a comprehensive program of flood plain manaccment can save lives,
reduce property damage, and reduce public expenditures resultins
from flood disasters;

NOW, TtiERr:.FOI~E, I, Richard b. Lamm, Governor of the Stale or Colorado, do
hereby proclaim July 31, 1981 as

FLOOD AWARENESS DAY
IN MCMOI.t Y OF "n"IE OIG TI"IOMPSON FI.OOD

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in the State of Colorado and urge all Coloradans to remember thuse who died ;md .
suIlercd iL.:i a result or Lhis di~a~tcr.

GIVEN under my hand and the
Executive Seal of the State of
COlorado, this twenty-third day of
July, A.D., 1981.

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