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<br />j <br />. <br /> <br />I' <br /> <br />;{ <br />~< <br />if <br />" <br />I <br />I:'~ <br />J; <br />l/ <br />~. <br />l,.. <br /> <br />t <br />i <br />, <br />;t' <br />t <br /> <br />.: <br /> <br />~. <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />~ <br />.' <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Box Elder Creek Hydrology <br /> <br />the floodplains were undeveloped and a preventive program could be effective in limiting <br />future needs for corrective action. <br /> <br />Based on this information, the District's Board of Directors adopted a two-pronged <br /> <br />approach of fixing the areas where mistakes had already been made, but also attempting <br /> <br />to prevent those mistakes from being repeated by new development. The District then <br /> <br />embarked on an ambitious program of preparing master plans to address the corrective <br /> <br /> <br />needs along the developed major drainageways within the District. <br /> <br />In 1974, the District received authorization to levy an additional 0.4 mill property tax for <br />design and construction. At that time the District established both the Design and <br />Construction Program, intended to correct past mistakes, and the Floodplain Management <br />Program, to prevent new mistakes from being created in the undeveloped floodplains. <br /> <br />The Master Planning Program continued to complete master plans for corrective <br />situations, but also began to transition into preventive planning, and ultimately, by the <br />1990's, into watershed-wide preventive planning. The Floodplain Management Program <br />quickly embarked on an effort to delineate 100-year floodplains, based on "future <br />watershed conditions" hydrology, along the undeveloped major drainageways where <br />floodplain information was not yet available. The District cooperated with the National <br />Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) on a number of joint studies to identify these <br />floodplains. The Design and Construction Program began impleme:ntation of <br />construction projects based on some of the early master planning efforts. Finally, in 1980 <br />the District received authorization for an additional 0.4 tenth mill property tax for the <br />maintenance of drainage and flood control facilities. <br /> <br />With these programs and funding sources the District has aggressively pursued the <br />original board policy of correcting past mistakes while preventing new ones from being <br />created. By the end of 1998, the District will have completed 98 master plans, will have <br />mapped in excess of 850 linear miles of floodplains, and, in cooperation with its local <br /> <br />CTCS.doc <br /> <br />2 <br />