Dates: Held September 16-18, 2025

Location: Denver, CO

This second of five Advancing the Integration of Clean Water Act and Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning and Implementation project workshops was held September 16-18, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. The workshop aimed to facilitate collaborative partnerships and build cross-governmental relationships and awareness of what is going on in different departments, agencies, and at various levels of government in terms of hazard mitigation and water resource protection planning and program development. Participating state and local attendees included those from Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington. The workshop brought participants together with a cadre of leaders in the fields of water and hazards management to discuss floodplains, wetlands, and green infrastructure, integrated planning, local permitting & regulations, wildfire and water management, water scarcity planning, funding mechanisms and how to combine funding sources, and building and sustaining relationships. A mobile tour of the Mile High Flood District’s Little Dry Creek Project was included as well. The event was hosted by the National Association of Wetland Managers (NAWM) and the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), funded by an EPA cooperative agreement.

The workshop program can be reviewed here.

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