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SUPPLEMENT: (3) Regulation of flood plain uses may be difficult to achieve in a~eaa AU'I'HORlZATION where extensive encroachment haa previoualy occurred. This report is one of a series preps red in response to an spplieation Although the choice s~ong alternatives ia often complex, it is obvioua -oytha InterMCou.ntyRegional Planning COIIlllIinionof Denver, Colorado, for that adequate and continuing publie information On flooding potentials and information on the flood potentials snd flood hazard areas of the streams flood hSZllrd areas can be a potent foree for prevention of flood damages, in the metropolitBn region of Denver, Colorado. '!he City of Aurora, This serveS to caution the uninformed agsinst encroachment into u.nreeogM Colorado joined in the application for studies on Sand and TOll Gate Creeka. nized hazard areae. However, information alone may be a fickle guerdiso The ColoradO WsterConservatlonBoal"d, in its capaeityas statecoordinllting of eOllllllunity velt'are unless cOllWlu.nity planners adopt measures to prevent agency, hea endorsed these applications. unwise encroachment into flood hazard areas. Hovever, without eommunity This report vae prepared unde~ the authority of Section 206 of the 1960 Flood Control Act (Public La" 86M645, 14 July 1960), Wllich reads in aupport, flood prevention measures ean be only partislly effective. The prilllaryresponaibll1tyforpru.dent use of the flood plain rests part aa follows: plainuse,orSScOOlmittingtheFederalOovernmenttoinvestigating, "Thst, in reeogn1tion of the incressing use and development of flood plaina of trre rivers of the United States snd of the need for information on flood hazards to serve as a guide to such development, and os a basis for avoiding f~t~re hazards by regulation of use by states and Municipalities, the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, is hereby authori~ed to compile snd disseminate information on floods andflooddatllflges, including identif1cation of areas 8LlbJeet to inW"ldation by floods of variOus magnitudes and frequencies, and general criteria for guidanco in the use of flood plain areas; and to provide engineering advice to loeal interests for their "se in plonninr;( to mneliorate the flood hazards; prOvided, thst the neeesssry surveys and studies vill be ~sde end euch information and advice w111 be provided for specific l.ocalities only ~pon the requests of a Stste or a responsible local Governmentsl agency and upon approval by the Chief of Engineers." vith the locsl community. Thus wbile this report is published to define the flood hazards, it should not he construed as inferring any intent to extend any Federal authority over zoning or other regulation Of flood planning, designing, constructing, operating or maintaining aoy facilities discussed, except to the extent that they Illay be authorized by Congress. TECHNICAL I~FORYATION A more exteosive presentation of the flood plain information s~~arized inth1areport, including related technical data, 1aavalleble in "Volume II, FloodPlain Information Report for the Metropol1tan Region of Denver, Colorado, Send, TollGatc nnd Lover Cherry Creel<s." A limLted nwnber of copies of this full report are svsilsble for diatrlb~tion. " "