Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Chapter 12.16 STORM DRAINAGE
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))