Missouri Water Information System: MoWIS – Development Update

Missouri Water Technology and Resilience: MoWaTeR Working Group

May 13, 2020

It's Official: 2012 Drought Cost Taxpayers a Record $14 Billion

2011 Flood Missouri. Damages: $2 billion.

http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2011/09/06/190655.htm

taxpayer.net/library/article/2012-drought-cost-taxpayers-a-record-14-billion

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/events.pdf

2019 Flood Midwest Damages: $6.2 billion.

Need for Real-Time Missouri Water Information System (MoWIS):

Plans:- Collaborate with Iowa Flood Center (IFC), USGS,

USACE to design and deploy Missouri Water Information System (MoWIS).o Leverage current flood inundation efforts by

USACE/USGS and work with IFC to develop a statewide forecast model, with MO data assimilation.

o Work with SRMT/SEMA and MDNR, Economic Development and other state, federal agencies to prioritize watersheds

o Work with local (academic and agency) partners to develop process-based hydrologic models for critical watersheds.

Plans:- Collaborate with Iowa Flood Center (IFC),

USGS, USACE to design and deploy Missouri Water Information System (MoWIS).o Work with local MO partners to implement

instrumentation and develop community-based flood inundation maps with stage elevation damage information

o Work with USGS / USACE-Silver Jackets / IFC / NWS to develop a real-time water information system for flood forecast and inundation mapping system for the mainstream Missouri River and incorporate into MoWIS.

o Relation to critical infrastructure resilience, logistics impacts, mitigation o Connect to water quality efforts at watershed and state levels.

Core PartnersHydrology modelling and data collection (quality and quantity).• Cesar Mendoza, S&T, Civil Eng• Joel Burken, S&T, Civil Eng• Noel Aloysius, Mizzou, Bio Eng• Rebecca North, Mizzou, Natural Res • Alba Argerich, Mizzou, Natural Res

USGS & USACE collaborators• Paul Rydlund, USGS, S&T Adjunct• Brian Rast, USACE, Silver Jackets

Infrastructure systems resilience - AI• Steve Corns, S&T, Eng Mgnt• Suzie Long, S&T, Eng Mgnt

Water Information System Architects - Iowa Flood Center• Larry Weber, UIowa, IIHR-Iowa Flood Center• Witold Krajewski, UIowa, IIHR IIHR-Iowa Flood Center• Antonio Arenas, UIowa, IIHR IIHR-Iowa Flood Center

Groundwater and hyporheic zone, including Levee assessment and resilience • Joe Gillman, MoGS/MDNR• Scott Kaden, MoGS/MDNR

Sensors and Cyber infrastructure systems – AI • Chang Soo-Kim, S&T, Elect, Comp Eng • Sanjay Madria, S&T, Computer Science• Dan Brewer & Matt Roth, Brewer Science

Funding and Support • Seed funding to develop the team and generate the

proposals and seek the federal funding and build the partnerships into functional teams.

• HUD - CDBG Statewide Mapping Project (Coordinate with SRMT, SEMA)

• HUD - NDRC National Disaster Resilience Competition grants

• HUD - CDBG-MIT Mitigation program, Watershed –specific funding https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/cdbg-mit/

Funding and Support • State base-funding of the MoWIS, development of data

platform and advancements of sensors network, communications, outreach, development of the real time forecast model, community-based flood maps.

• Other federal funding, NOAA, NASA, USACE, NSF, USGS, DOE, etc for component specific tasks. Partly in-kind expertise for collaborative development and support

• SBIR funding and economic development with Missouri companies on sensor development and fundamental science advancement.

A Real-Time Flood Information System:

Case Study of IowaWitold F. Krajewski and Larry Weber

IFC developed and deployed 250 “bridge sensors”

100 additional requested

http://ifis.iowafloodcenter.org/ifis/app/

IFC has been mapping inundation:…for communities

Phase 1 ‒ Hydrography Phase 2 ‒ Hydrology

Phase 3 ‒ Hydraulics Phase 4 ‒ Mapping

2014 20152009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2016 2017 2018

Des MoinesCedar Falls & Waterloo

Charles City

HillsCedar Rapids

Ames

Ottumwa

ElkaderMason City

Spencer

Maquoketa

Columbus Junct

Waverly

Independence

Humboldt

Iowa City

Rock Rapids

Rock Valley

Red Oak

Ida Grove

MonticelloFort Dodge

Clarksville

2019

Palo

Adel

Greene

Decorah

Freeport

Estherville

Today

CF/Waterloo

Hills

Charles CityMason City

Elkader

Cedar Rapids

OttumwaDes Moines

Iowa City

Independence

Maquoketa

Columbus Junction

WaverlyHumboldt

Spencer

Rock Valley

Red Oak

Rock Rapids

MonticelloFort Dodge

Clarksville

Ida Grove

Decorah

AmesPalo

Estherville

Greene

Adel

Freeport

Current Missouri Inundation Maps & AHPS sites

Ongoing mapping:• Harrisonville

(proposed)• Grandview (WIP)• St. Peters (WIP)• O'Fallon (WIP)• Desoto (complete)

Integration of MoWIS with Regional and National Efforts

• FEMA Region 7 as a focus, with consistent platforms in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas

• Looking regional approach – build the approach to be used in other areas (multistate coordination to pursue federal support)

Coordinating across current efforts• Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM)Federal efforts to combine forecasting, hydrology, hydraulics and mapping (among other) are identified with InFRM. Additionally, USGS, USACE, and NWS have collaborated to kick start the iFIM project which collates all existing and continuous flood inundation mapping initiatives/efforts from these (3) agencies.

MoWIS will work within theiFIM efforts to contribute to and leverage state and national inundation mapping initiatives and efforts

Current Flood Inundation Mapping NOAA Office of Water Prediction

Current work with Mo-FIMs High Resolution Flood Mapping (St. Louis)Drs. Steven Corns & Suzie Long – MoDOT Project

Flow Hydrograph based on USGS flow data Flood Mapping using USGS flow data and HEC-RAS Flood Mapping Software

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Dynamic Rerouting (St. Louis)Responsive to flood inundation mapping and projecting

routes to mitigate impacts to transportation and logisticsPredictive and reactive transportation model based on Meramec FIM

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• Grand, Chariton, Hinkson Creek and Goodwater Creek Watersheds

• HUC 12 spatial scale watershed models to inform conservation efforts needed to improve water quality in Missouri streams and lakes

• Currently, models have been developed for several watersheds

• Hourly simulations: water, sediments, and other chemical fluxes in streams

• Framework can be used for short-term hydrologic forecasting at finer spatial scales

Support of the Missouri Disaster Recovery Framework: Operational coordination among the State Disaster Recovery Coordinators and Recovery Support Function Leads

• Benefitting Recovery Support Strategies– Agriculture

• Disruption of crop production, health and well being.– Community Planning and Capacity Building

• Limited recovery management resources and pre-disaster resilience planning.– Economic

• Economic losses, disruption to business/revenue, lack of resilient infrastructure, workforce displacement

– Housing• Need for sustainable, resilient housing

– Infrastructure• Vulnerability of flood-protection, water-supply and wastewater facilities, power supply.

Need for broader river and watershed management.– Natural and Cultural Resources

• Lack of resiliency in floodplains, nutrient and contaminant runoff, erosion, and sediment migration. Damage to municipal parks/recreation impact on community and tourism

Disaster DeclarationsDR-4435DR-4451

MoWIS – Rapid Response to FEMA Declarations

• MoWIS will facilitate rapid and more accurate estimated claims from FEMA declaration.

• MoWIS will serve to generate estimated avoided losses from mitigation and resilience projects, watershed management, infrastructure improvements,

• MoWIS will help to generate estimates related to crop impacts, response and insurance claims.

It's Official: 2012 Drought Cost Taxpayers a Record $14 Billion

Flood Damages Missouri. 2011: $2 B, 2019: $6.2 B

http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2011/09/06/190655.htm

taxpayer.net/library/article/2012-drought-cost-taxpayers-a-record-14-billion

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/events.pdf

Need for Real-Time Missouri Water Information System (MoWIS):

Partnership and Template for Real-Time Missouri Water Information System (MoWIS):

FRAWG Interim Report: “The state of Missouri should develop an enhanced flood monitoring system, comparable to the Iowa Flood Information System.”