What is the purpose and status of the risk assessment component of the study?
The purpose of the risk assessment is to identify and quantify life safety, property damage and environmental risks associated with South Boulder Creek flooding. To assess the risk to life safety, important information includes inundation mapping and basin response time. Property damage assessments involve depth of flooding and the corresponding value of associated losses. Environmental risks consider erosion and sediment transport, the loss of vegetation and changes in the creek path. The risk assessment will help to inform and educate those affected by flooding and support subsequent flood management and mitigation planning. The study has produced information identifying the flood hazard zones affecting individual properties (see Floodplain to Structure Address Table) that is available on the South Boulder Creek Web site. The risk assessment will be completed in 2007 to support the subsequent flood mitigation planning.
