FLOOD08745

• County: Statewide
• Community: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Colorado Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Date: 12/1/1999
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: Kistner and Associates
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

Colorado Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan -1999

Colorado Wa.. G4(5)99 _ Develop a hazard mitigation education program for public officials, . .
ter . G4(9)99 _ Provide newsletter articles, other relevant information on flood hazard mitigation and
Conservation natural hazard redudion and other forms of information exchange to professional organiza-
Board tions . . .

(c~Cn~~~~d) . G4{ll)99 - Promote the roncept of people accepting fiscal responsibility for the ronsequences
of living in flood prone areas,
. G6(1 )99 - Promote the design and operation of canals, ditches, and other related infrastrudure
to ronvey floodwaters safely,
. G6(2)99 - Promote mitigation of critical infrastrucllxe,
. G6(3)99 - Encourage improvements to local emergency warning systems, , ,
. G7(4)99 - Review the adequacy of existing stream gauge networks and make recommenda-
tions for future maintenance and improvements,

. Gl(1)99 _ Develop Memoranda of Agreement between the Governor and responsible state
agencies to implemenVaccomplish the 1999 flood hazard mitigation recommendations.
. G2(1 )99 _ Promote awareness of existing State Executive Orders 8504, 8491 and legislation
such as House BiI11041.
. G4(8)99 _ Invite representatives such as Public Service, Rocky Mountain Insurance Information
Association (RMIIA), AT&T (TCI), the real estate industry, the insurance industry, the mortgage
lending industry, and the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry (CACI) to join the
State Hazard Mitigation Team.

Department
of
Natural
Resou rces
DNR

Division of
Wildlife
(DOW)

Colorado
Department
of Transpor-
tation
(COOT)

Colorado
Geological
Survey
(CGS)

Division of
Housing

Department
of Education
(DOE)

Colorado
Department
Higher
Education
(CDHE)

. G3(4)99 _ Research and support the use of ronservation easements, transferable development
rights, cluster development, recreational uses, wildlife areas, and open space uses as tools
when undertaking mitigation initiatives.
. G4{l )99 _ Enhance the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains by promoting an increased
awareness of wetland and habitat resources and their benefits to flood hazard mitigation.

. G4(4)99 _ (Joint action with DNR and DOLA) Improve access to information regarding flood-
plain management, flood hazard mitigation, and flood insurance through approaches such as
the use of hyper-links between state agency Websites, bibliographies of available materials, etc.
. G6(2)99 - Promote mitigation of critical infrastructure,

. G4(7)99 _ Through flood hazard reduction workshops, promote the use of a "hazard overlay"
concept for GIS mapping using information developed by the Colorado Geological Survey
(CGS) for Garfield County, as a model,

. G2(2)99) _ Identify long-term safe affordable housing outside hazard areas using manufadured
housing where applicable and volunteer agency ronstrudion,

. G4(10)99 _ Develop or integrate natural hazards awareness and education program into K-12
schools utilizing programs already in place,

. G7(3)99 _ Promote development of master drainage plans for state rolleges, institutions, cultural
facilities and other large public facilities, Develop inventory. , .
. G7(5)99 _ Encourage the rontinued advancement of rainfal~runoff modeling research.

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