FLOOD09852

• County: Alamosa
• Community: Alamosa
• Stream Name: Rio Grande River
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Title: Report on Governor's Emergency Funding 1987 Rio Grande Flooding
• Date: 7/15/1987
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

EXHIBIT A

h~EREAS, various irrigation districts and ditch
companies, as well as individual farmers, have spent
thousands of dollars to try and drain the excess water away
from their fields; and

WHEREAS, in order to assist the direct flow ditches
diverting from the Rio Grande in rehabilitating drainage
systems to allow water to be drained away from the crop
lands toward the Closed Basin Project, the Board has
allocated $15,000.00 from District revenues to assist in the
reconstruction and rehabilitation of the drainage systems;
and ~

WHEREAS, the 1987 Colorado General Assembly, in Senate
Bill 15, has authorized the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to loan the District additional funds for drain
rehabilitation and repair up to $250,000.00; and

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WHEREAS, the Board has requested a grant of $50,000.00
from the State of Colorado Division of Disaster Emergency
Services to be used for drainage repairs in the hope of
increasing the quantity of diversions which the direct flow
ditches can make from the river; and

WHEREAS, at the Board's request, the united States
Bureau of Reclamation is making men and equipment available
to assist in the drain rehabilitation efforts; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Revised Statutes, ~24-35.5-701,
et ~, provide for the Governor to declare a disaster
emergency when there is imminent threat of widespread damage
or loss of life or property resulting from floods; and

WHEREAS, the Board has taken every action within its
power to plan for and seek to prevent or reduce the
potential for flooding; and

WHEREAS, the potential for loss of life and property
remains so high that the Board feels it must go on record as
recommending that the Governor favorably consider a request
for a determination that a disaster emergency, caused by the
imminent threat of flooding, exists, if such a request is
made by the duly elected public officials of the San Luis
Valley.

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NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE RIO GRANDE WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT that
the Board, after reviewing the facts currently available,
believes that there is a strong likelihood that flooding
will occur along the Rio Grande this year and recommends
that the Governor favorably consider a request for a
declaration of disaster emergency covering the affected
land, if one is received from the duly elected public
officials of the San Luis Valley,

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