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<br />PREFACE <br /> <br />THIS HAS HAPPENED! <br /> <br />The annual toll of socisl snd econ~ic costs ~hich flOOds inflict On <br /> <br />AUGUST 1956 <br />Area is Strutk Twite by Heavy Downpours <br />Raging flaod Water Turns Denver Streets Into Rivers <br />Flood Waters Hit Denver Areas Again <br />Denver's Flood Cost Total Near 55 Million <br /> <br />0\U' cOllllllunities is a burden ~hich neither the cOllllllunity nor the MUon <br /> <br />ean aftord. Joloreover, the individual, vho WlkIlowingly scquirfls property <br /> <br />1n flood ha~ard areas snd later falls victim to flOOds, suffers personal <br /> <br />tragedy vith consequences otten endlU"ing long atter the flood haa been <br /> <br />generally forgotten. <br /> <br />Graving urban flood damages have been attributed to"a peraistent <br /> <br />JUlY 1953 <br />Denverites Wage Grim Bailie With Flood Waters After Vidous Storm <br />Pitture of a Neighborhood. Despair, Mud, Tears <br /> <br />hUlllao inva810n of urban flOOdplsina." <br /> <br />Increasing national expenditures for flood control ~orks have been <br /> <br />unable to offset sufficiently these mounting urban damages. <br /> <br />To foater :prudent use of urhan flood plains. Congress suthorized a <br /> <br />national progrsm of flood plain information in the :Flood Control Act of <br />1960. The Denver program of flood plain info~stion wss initiated under <br /> <br />t~ authority of this Act. <br /> <br />If you remember these and earlier eventa which he,e made headlines tn <br /> <br />This bOOklet summerizee the second report of 8 scheduled series of <br /> <br />the Denver region, you vill recognize the p~8e of flood plain info~a- <br /> <br />flood plain informtltton r..portll rOT th.. _tl"OpQlit.!ln resion o:f Denver, <br /> <br />tior,. ~r yo... <lr~ ne\of to the regter., you lIIIly not ha"~ been 'l\oIAr~ th"t It <br /> <br />Colorado. It pertains to the metropolitan reaches of Sand, Toll Gate snd <br /> <br />can happen here. <br /> <br />Lower Cherry Creeks. Its purpose is to provide public information On the <br /> <br />Thia information may apB~ you from becoming th.. victtm of future <br /> <br />:flood, potentials and flood hazard areas of these atreams to :foster pl"Udent <br /> <br />floods. <br /> <br />use of the flood plains. <br /> <br />~%Ac!!!,,;;;) <br />HAROLD . ST. CLAIR <br />COlOlle,CorpsofE.ngineers <br />Distr1ct Engineer <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />, <br />