P R E S E N T E D B Y

City of Barrie Case Study –

Building Municipal Resilience

City of Barrie

Jacqueline Weston, Director of Engineering

May 21, 2015

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• Why?

• How?

• What’s

Next?

Overview

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• Each municipality is unique

• City of Barrie

– Changing weather patterns

– Community impacts

– Infrastructure impacts

– Financial impacts

– Reduce our risk

Why is Barrie taking action?

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Changing Weather Patterns

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• June 9, 2005 - exceeded the 1:100

return interval storm event

• June 28, 2006 – 25-50 year event

• July 4, 2006 – over 5 year event

• July 29, 2006 – over 10 year event

• June 17, 2014 – Tornado

• June 24, 2014 – over 10 year event

Storm Frequency & Intensity

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June 9, 2005

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June 9, 2005

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Kidds Creek North of Dunlop June 9, 2005.

Dunlop at Kidds Creek June 9, 2005.

June 9, 2005

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Between Houses Lillian Cres June 9, 2005.

Lillian Crescent June 9, 2005.

June 17, 2014 Tornado

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June 17, 2014 Tornado

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June 24, 2014

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Photo: Flooding Lakeshore June 24, 2014.

Photo: Johnson Beach June 24, 2014.

June 24, 2014

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There are those who look at things the

way they are, and ask why... I dream

of things that never were, and ask why

not?

Robert Kennedy

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• Collaborative

approach

• Reduce carbon

footprint

• Adapt to reduce

impact

• Increase resilience

How is Barrie responding?

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Climate Change

Adaptation

Engineering

Operations

Maintenance

Planning

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien

Voltaire

Don’t let the perfect get in the way of

the good

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• Official Plan

– Protection of natural

heritage and

parkland

– Energy conservation

• Input to other levels

of government

1. Policy Development

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• Joined federal program “Partners for

Climate Protection” (2001)

• Completed GHG Inventory and

Community Energy Plan (2006)

• Hosted OCCIAR Workshop “Barrie in a

Changing Climate” (2010)

• Hosted Municipal Stormwater

Management Discussion Group (2011)

2. Education and Outreach

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• Energy Management Plan (2012)

• Energy Management Group (2013)

• Facility optimization “Run it Right”

• Staff awareness “Save Adam”

• Capital improvements

• New facilities to LEED Silver

3. Energy Efficient Buildings

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• Walk through energy and water audit

• Develop plan and implement

• Q1 2015

– Total investment approximately $20,000

from January 1, 2015

– Yearly savings are estimated at between

$170,000 -$200,000 (electrical usage

reduction about 8.5%)

“Run it Right”

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• Solar panels

• Green roofs

• Landfill gas collection system

• WWTF biogas utilization project

• “Greening the Fleet”

• Battery charging stations

• LED streetlight conversion ($8M cost

avoidance over 10 years)

4. Reduced GHG Emissions

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Solar Panels at Operations Centre

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• Recycling of office paper

• Community recycling through our

Sustainable Waste Management

Strategy

• Annual Tree Planting Program

• Reviewing tree species for adaptation

5. Increasing Carbon Storage

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• Multi-Modal Active Transportation

Master Plan (12% AT, 7% transit)

• Active Transportation Barrie Working

Group (City staff and community

stakeholders)

• Sidewalk Infill Program and Bicycle

Lane construction

• Traffic control signal coordination

6. Transportation System

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• Water efficiency program

• Infiltration/inflow reduction program

• Rainfall monitoring

• Creek water quality and flow

monitoring program

• Road Weather Information System

• Updated Site Alteration By-law

7. Programs & By-laws

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Water Efficiency

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• Since 1995, water use has fallen by 100 L/c/d.

• Water efficiency programs account for at least 20% of this reduction.

• Residential water use is 185 lcpd.

• This is 28% better than Ontario’s average.

• This is 40% better than Canada’s average.

• Savings in deferred Capital Expenditure are $4,500,000.

• Residents save over $1,000,000 annually.

Wastewater Inflow and Infiltration Reduction Efforts

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• Flow Monitoring in

Sanitary Manholes

Rainfall Monitoring

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• 6 active rainfall monitors

throughout the City

• Collect data every 5 minutes

• Data used in many

departments throughout the

City

Stream Flow Monitoring

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• City currently has a creek flow monitoring

program. The understanding of storm

water hydrology and hydraulics has

progressed significantly in recent years.

Road Weather Information System

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A road weather information system (RWIS) collects winter

weather and road condition information. Sensors measure

pavement temperature, wind speed and direction.

This data is used by Barrie to support winter maintenance

activities makings roads safer for motorists.

The City of Barrie as two RWIS stations located at

Livingston/Bayfield and Yonge/Ashford.

• Stormwater standards updated in

2009 to account for climate change

– Updated IDF curves (15% increase)

– Overland flow routes

• Updating all standards

– Frozen water services

• Creating new standards

– Low Impact Development

8. Engineering Standards

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• Infrastructure Master Plans and Asset

Management Plan (City-wide models)

• Maintain, repair and redesign on a

priority basis

– Waterfront restoration and creek

naturalization

– Storm water ponds, culverts and pipes

– Water, Sanitary, Roads

9. Infrastructure Improvements

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Business Risk Exposure

Kidd’s Creek Naturalization

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Bunkers Creek Improvements(Wellington to Donald)

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D’ambrosio Pond Retrofit

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North Shore Slope Stabilization

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North Shore Boat House Removal

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Barrie WWTF Upgrades

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• Building community

resilience (improve

ability to respond

and recover)

• Annual tabletop

exercise

• Jeff Weber

presentation

10. Emergency Plan

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• Continuous improvement and

continued collaboration

• Risk assessment

• Community engagement – 10 Things

You Can Do

• Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

What’s next?

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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you

want to go far, go together.

African Proverb

What’s next?

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Thank you!

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Thank you!!