12.16.010 Drainage Criteria Manual adopted.

A. The Greenwood Village Drainage Criteria Manual, dated February, 2005, is adopted by reference. Three copies of the manual shall be maintained in the city clerk’s office and available for public inspection during regular business hours.
B. The purpose of the manual is to prescribe the minimum design and technical criteria for storm drainage within the city. The manual: includes requirements for drainage facilities for new development and redevelopment projects; establishes the city’s storm drainage policies and floodplain regulations; contains hydrologic criteria and methodology for determining the storm runoff design peak flows and volumes to be used in the preparation of storm drainage studies, plans, and facility design; contains environmental protection criteria including standards for erosion control, nonpoint source pollution control, and wetlands preservation; and adopts as a secondary code the current edition of the Urban Storm Drainage Criteria Manual, first published by the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, Denver, Colorado in March, 1969. The purpose of the Urban Storm Drainage Criteria Manual is to prescribe the minimum design and technical criteria for the analysis and design of storm drainage facilities. (Ord. 2005-2 § 1 (part))