FLOOD05740

• County: Denver
• Community: All
• Stream Name: All
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Landslide Loss Reduction
• Date: 1/1/1989
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: CGS
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

Contents Continued

to Landslides ..............................................30
Land-Use Regulations .........................30
Reducing the Occurrence of Landslides
and Managing Landslide Events ..............30
Building and Grading Codes ...............30
Emergency Management.....................31
Controlling Landslide-Prone Slopes
and Protecting Existing Structures ..........31
Precautions Concerning Reliance
on Physical Methods ............................32
Design Considerations and Physical
Mitigation Methods..............................33
CHAPTER 7-Plan Preparation................35
Determining the Need for a State Plan ....35
Federal Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act
(Section 409) .........................................35
The Planning Team....................................36
The Planning Process ................................37
Step 1 - Hazard Analysis .....................37
. Step 2 - Identification ofImpacted

Sites .............................................,....... .37
Step 3 - Technical Information

Transfer .... ................... .........................38
Step 4 - Capability Assessment...........38
Step 5 - Determination ofUnmet

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Local Needs ...................................,......39
Step 6 - Formulation of Goals and

Objectives .............................................40
Local Landslide Hazard
Mitigation .................. .....................40
Development of Mitigation

Proj ects ...........................................40
Step 7 - Establishment of a
Permanent State Hazard
Mitigation Organization ......................41
Step 8 - Review and Revision ..............43
CHAPTER 8-Review and Revision of
the Plan and the Planning Process ..........44
Inventory of Landslide Costs.....................44
Evaluation of Mitigation Projects and

Techniques ... ............. ............ ......................44
Examples of Innovative Mitigation

Approaches ................... ........................45
Analyses of Local Mitigation Programs....45
CHAPTER 9-Approaches for Over-
coming Anticipated Problems ...................46
Organizational Problems .......... .............. ...46
Management Problems..............................46
Financial Problems ....................................46
Coordination Problems ..............................47
REFERENCES CITED .................................48

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