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Jlddi tional Case Studies Jt comparison of vario\Xs case study expel'i,mces can be found in Table 16. Det.ailed discussions of these are includee) here. Ilal Umore County, Maryland, decided that tl1(; cmly long term solution to its flooding problem was to relocate 221 hou.~!es. Financed entIrely by count.y funds, citizen approval was obtained onCE' i.t was flho\oln that. allocation and relocation of these homes \oIoullj ;;Ictually save tax clo11ars (Ralph ~I. Field and Associates, 1979). Beat.rice, Nebraska, is a city of roughly '12,:;00 people. One out of every six residents lives in the floodplain. Tte levee ,1l1d channel improvements that the city had done were of no l'iE,lp in a 19'73 flood. Community Development BlOCk Grant and Municipal fLmds wer'e used to relocate people out of the floodplain (Ralph ~1., Field & Associates, 19'79). A flood. in 1964 totally devastated the smaLl t,own of Klamath, California. A relocation site was chosen 1000 yards frail the old town. Regulations prevented owne:rs from rebuilding Imt the city did not buy the property. The new town site was not ready until 1969, Live years after the flood. The Corps of Engineers and the StatE! of Calil'ornia, financed the project, but because of the lack of finan,~i,i.I,l assist,ll1c', in the form of acquisItion payments and the time involved t,::- prepare the relocation site, the project failed to receive public SUPIX:1l't.. Frairie du Chien, Wisconsin, is an histor;lc canmunit)f with a population of 6000. After a 1965 flood inundatE!'d the city for 22 days, a flood protection study was requested. Results of this st~udy in 1970 led to the evacuation of the 10 year floodplain, f],c,oclproofing buildings in the 50 and 100 year floodplain and continued fJ.<:>ocl insur,ll1c'~, These projects were funded 80% by the Corps of Enginem's and 20% I)y the ci, ty with the help of HUD Block Grants. 3. FloCldproof ing The Colorado Water COll:3ervation Board's f'2!:..c:,rado F loodproof ing Manu~l (1983) lists three major categories of floodpr'oof i.ng. The first of these is pe'rmanent, where different types of floodpr'oofing such as elevation of a str'ucture and flood walls are incorporated :Into the design of a building. The second category, contingent flooe:lproofing" is usually initIated at the time a warning is issued. R"nwvable flc)od shields and movable flood walls are two examples. They m:lgI':t require minor reJTIodeLing of the existing structure and could remain in place throughout the, flood season. Emergency floodproof ing, the final catE'gory, consi sts of such methods as sandbags and is ini tiated at the t:lroe of flooeling. However. there if. usually too little time available fOl' emergency floodproofing ;,n a flash flood situation. -43-