FLOOD07020

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan for Colorado
• Date: 2/1/1998
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: Kistner and Associates
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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or are well underway.

Several of the recommendations deal directly with land
use planning, and .hazard mitigation planning is em-
phasized. Technical assistance is available directly to
local govemments, via planning commission work-
shops, land use planning workshops, publications and
other means of information dissemination. Several
projects that specifically involve hazard mitigation
planning have been awarded the Governor's Smart
Growth and Development Award.

3,3.2.5 Colorado Natural Hazards Mitigation
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For the past two decades, Colorado has experienced
rapid population and business growth. Pressures have
increased to build structures in floodplains, on steep
slopes, in wildfire areas, and other locations previously
considered unsafe or too costly to develop. Recogniz.
ing these issues, Govemor Roy Romer signed an
executive order establishing the Colorado Natural Haz-
ards Mitigation Council (CNHMC) in March of 1989.
The council was created as an interdisciplinary forum
for exchanging information and promoting ways to
reduce and manage impacts from natural hazards.

The council is composed of almost two hundred I/Olun- '
teer committee members in the state of Colorado. The
council is organized into technical and hazard specific
committees. The technical committees are Public N-
fairs and the steering Committee. Hazard specific
committees include Severe Weather, Dam Safety, Fire
Management and Mitigation, Drought, Geologic Haz-
ards, and Flood. A recently formed Policy Advisory
Group will guide overall strategy. The primary duties of

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the council are to:

. Prioritize natural hazards in the state and review
existing mitigation plans.

. Develop a mitigation management strategy inl/Olv-
ing various levels of government

. Provide information and technical assistance to
local governments and individuals.

Through its volunteer committees, the council has
supported over one hundred mitigation projects since
its inception. These include:

. Pre and post-disaster mitigation workshops for
homeowners and businesses in Canon City,
Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Rifle and
Lyons.

. Major flood mitigation activities in Lyons and the
San Luis Valley.

. Publication of "The Mitigation Siren' newsletter.

. GIS familiarization workshops.

. A hazard awareness contest for children.

. Dam Safety and Emergency Planning brochures.

. Publication of a Citizens Emergency Preparedness
Guide.

3.3.2,4 State Hazard Mitigation Plan

The first Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan was prepared
by the Slate of Colorado under authority of paragraph
7 of a FederaVstate Agreement negotiated between
the Slate of Colorado and the Federal Emergency
Management Agency. Governor Lamm signed that
agreement on July 27,1982, following President Rea-
gan's declaration of Larimer County as a major disas-
ter area on July 22, 1982 (FEMA-665-DR-CO).

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