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ON MOTION by Commissioner Bird, SECONDED by Com- missioner Bowman, the Board unanimously (3-0) directed staff to begin work on a lot clearing ordinance and schedule it for a public hearing. NORTH COUNTY FIRE AND SOUTH COUNTY FIRE The Board of County Commissioners recessed at 9:30 A.M. in order to reconvene acting as the District Board of Fire Commis- sioners of the North County Fire District. That meeting adjourned at 9:33 A.M. and the Board then reconvened acting as the District Board of Fire Commissioners of the South County Fire District, which meeting adjourned at 9:40 A.M. Those Minutes are being prepared separately. The Board of County Commissioners thereupon reconvened at 9:40 A.M. with the same members present, Commissioners Lyons and Wodtke being absent. DISCUSSION - STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND FLOOD PROTECTION Public Works Director Davis came before the Board in regard to an amendment of our Stormwater Management Ordinance, reviewed a short synopsis of a seminar he attended on Floodplain and Wetlands Management in 1982 where they developed a model ordinance to be used on a statewide level, and referred to the following underlined highlights: every year. A .ten year f1Qad _.1s _*. Jgod which has a ten percent chance of occurring in any given year. Something you might keep in mind with a ten year flood is that over a twenty-five year period there is a 93 percent chance of the ten year flood occurring. It hasn't rained much in recent years compared to the long term pv_erages and the types of weather conditions this state is conditioned to. Some recent examples might show you what kinds of problems we The cause of these problems, of course, is that people are con- tinuing tom d and occuov flood Prone lands. some preventive solu- tions are necessary. People need to be discouraged from occupying these sites. The alternative of trying to change the pattern of flooding by channelizing flood waters inevitably has some very adverse affects. We can increase flooding on other lands by trying to solve the problem in a articular place. When you fill in an area that nor- mally stores flood waters, the water is going to rise somew ere else. 17 SEP 2 3 1986 F 817 LBOOK