FLOOD06461

• County: Larimer
• Community: Estes Park
• Stream Name: Fall River, Lawn Lake
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: The Lawn Lake Dam Failure and the Fall River Flood
• Date: 8/6/1982
• Prepared For: FEMA
• Prepared By: Many
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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INTRODUCTION

This report contains the recommendations of the Region VIII
Intergovernmental Hazard Mitigation Team following the Presi-
dentially declared disaster of July 15, 1982 for Larimer County,
Colorado. These recommendations are being provided to the Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency Regional Director, agencies
that are party to the Interagency Agreement, as well as to the
affected state and local governments.

PURPOSE OF REPORT

The recommendations of the team are intended to provide the frame-
work for flood hazard mitigation during the recovery and recon-
struction process as a means of reducing the potential for future
flood losses.

OVERVIEW

In the light of huge and continuous expenditures for structural
solutions to flood problems, and due to the fact that flood los-
ses continue to escalate, a shift toward a comprehensive, coordi-
nated approach to flood plain management which incorporates a
range of expertise has been adopted. This report transmits sug-
gestions and recommendations which emphasize nonstructural approa-
ches toward mitigation while recognizing that no one set of tech-
niques is adequate by itself.

An Office of Management and Budget memorandum, dated July 10, 1980,
provides the basls for the establlshment of regional, interagency
and intergovernmental hazard mitigation teams designed to promote
a comprehensive approach to flood hazard mitigation during the
post-flood recovery process. These teams were then formed under
the Interagency Agreement for Nonstructural Damage Reduction Mea-
sures of December 15, 1980. The Office of Management and Budget
directive requires that a report be prepared by the team within
15 days of a Presidential disaster declaration, that the mitiga-
tion activities recommended in the report emphasize nonstructural
measures, and that federal agencies conform their recovery actions
to the recommendations of the report to the fullest extent practi-
cable.

The report is considered to be a conceptual guide for all federal
agencies providing recovery assistance in the disaster. An inter-
agency task force in Washington, D.C. was also established by the
Interagency Agreement. That national-level task force is avail-
able to coordinate activities and facilitate funding for implemen-
ting the recommendations in this report.

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