A September To Remember: The 2013 Colorado Flood Within The Urban Drainage and Flood Control District

By Urban Drainage Flood Control District and Wright Water Engineers

The September 2013 flood will be remembered for many yearsto come by Colorado Front Range communities. On September8, 2013, an unusual weather pattern began to set in along theColorado Front Range, leading to a multi-day rainfall event.In some communities, rainfall totals were characterized as a1,000-year rainfall event. Flooding damages from the September9-15 rainfall rivaled some of the worst in Colorado's history,second only to the 1965 South Platte River flood. A Septemberto Remember provides a synopsis of the flood event for selectedwatersheds within the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District(UDFCD) through the lens of drainage and floodplain planningand management.In the aftermath of the flood, UDFCD had a unique opportunity tosystematically review how its drainage and flood-related policies,plans, improvements, and programs functioned when tested by amajor, widespread flood event. The importance of sound drainageand floodplain management has been reinforced and illustratedthrough the photography and analysis of conditions in thosewatersheds within the UDFCD boundaries. Many lessons havebeen learned and long-standing principles and policies reinforced,based on the real-world experience of communities in thesewatersheds. These lessons learned are provided in A September toRemember so that the citizens of Colorado can benefit from theseexperiences into the future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500966568
• ISBN13: 9781500966560
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.5"