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National Weather Service Missouri Basin Forecasters Meeting

Pilot Project: Missouri River Flood Inundation Maps

The state hazard mitigation teams and USACE Silver JacketsBrian Rast, PE, CFM, PMPSilver Jackets Coordinator for Kansas and MissouriKansas City DistrictFebruary 20, 2013

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Topics Silver Jackets

Program and Background

Leading Change in Managing Risks from Natural Hazards

Pilot Projects For More Information

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Overview

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Flood Earthquake Hurricane wind Wildfire Tornado

Storm surge Landslide Erosion Severe winter weather Extreme temperatures

Tsunami Drought Lightning Hail Subsidence

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Natural Hazards

USACE mission exists in those underlined

Risk Communication

State’s Hazard Mitigation

Efforts

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Flood Risk Management Life Cycle

Mitigation

Preparation / Training Response

Recovery

Event

Partnerships·Hazard mitigation planning

·Floodplain management plans

·Pre- & post- response & recovery activities

“Getting Ready”Actions taken BEFORE the event, including planning, training, and

preparations

• Flood Risk Management system assessment / inspections

• Monitoring / forecasting threats• State and Local Coordination• Reservoir operations• Flood Fight Preparation

“The Flood Fight”Actions taken DURING the initial

impact of a disaster, including those to save lives and prevent further

property damage

• Emergency system strengthening• Monitor and report flood impact• Monitor system performance• Support State / Local Flood Fight

“Getting back on our feet”Actions taken AFTER the initial impact, including those directed

toward returning to normalcy.

• Repair damaged systems• Assess and document system

performance• Implement mitigation measures /

system improvements

“Driving Down the Risks”

Measures that PREVENT a disaster, reduce its

chance of happening, or reduce its damaging

effects.• Modify mitigation plans• Identify future mitigation

opportunities• Develop system improvements

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What is ?

Silver Jackets is the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Civil Works program enabling participation in the states’ hazard mitigation teams. This is about collaboration between USACE, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other federal, state and local agencies to create an interagency team at the state level to develop and implement solutions to state natural hazard priorities.

The Silver Jackets Program provides a formal and consistent strategy for an interagency approach to planning and implementing measures to reduce the risks associated with natural hazards.

Background

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The primary goals are to· leverage information and resources,

· improve risk communication to the public in a unified effort,

· and create a mechanism to collaboratively solve issues and implement initiatives.

Background

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Shared Flood Risk ManagementMeasures for driving down flood risks:

Residual Risk

Federal / State / Local

Federal / State / Local

Federal / State / Local

Federal / State / Local

Federal / State / Local / Individual

State / Local

Local

Outreach

Natural Storage

Structural

Non – Structural

Contingency Plans

Building Codes

Zoning

Insurance Individual / NFIP

Initial Risk

All Stakeholders contribute to reducing risk!

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The USACE Flood Risk Management (FRM) Program is the umbrella program

for all our programs related to the hazards of flooding.

Interagency Levee Task Forces (on Missouri and Mississippi Rivers)

Coastal Storm Damage ReductionPublic Affairs Office

Planning, Regulatory, Environmental FRM Planning Center of Expertise

Federal Task Force, E011988, Unified National Plan R&D, Critical Infrastructure, CERB, IWR International

Interagency Flood Risk Management Committee

Silver JacketsFlood Plain Management Services Planning Assistance to States Emergency Response P.L. 84-99 Levee ProgramDam & Levee SafetyFRM Business Line

Natural Hazard Priority 1: FRM

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Accomplishments with hazard mitigation team► Steady presence in state hazard mitigation team meetings since 2009► Regular “Status Update” reports (originally for upward reporting)► Invitational Travel Orders (ITOs) to FRM workshop, 3 years in a row► ITOs to Natural Hazards workshops► Pilot Projects: 3 (as of Dec 2012)

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Silver Jackets in KC District

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Wildcat Creek Manhattan, KS a floodplain management plan flood forecast inundation mapping

Cross Creek Rossville, KS flood forecast inundation mapping

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Pilot Projects

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Missouri River Inundation Maps flood inundation mapping

► Parkville, MO to Leavenworth, KS► River miles 377 to 398

development of a process for consistent FIM for remainder of Missouri River

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Pilot Projects

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Missouri River Mapping

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Levee Protected Areas

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Levees in Pilot Reach

Levee Federal or Non-Federal

Vandiver-Oldham Levee , 82A; L NONFED

Wolcott DD, Section 3, Item 83Sec3; R NONFED

Wolcott DD, Section 2, Item 83Sec2; R NONFED

Wolcott DD, Section 1, Item 83Sec1; R NONFED

MRLS 400-L FED

MRLS 408-L FED

Kansas Department of Corrections, Item 83B, R NONFED

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Partners

• State Risk Management Team• State Emergency Management Agency• Missouri Department of Natural Resources

• Counties in Kansas and Missouri• Missouri River County Officials Coalition (MRCOCO)

• National Weather Service (NWS)• US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)• US Army Corps of Engineers, Risk Management Center - Modeling Mapping & Consequences (MMC)

• US Geological Service (USGS)

• Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)

• FEMA• Missouri River Flood Task Force• Kansas Hazard Mitigation Team• Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources

• Kansas Division of Emergency Management

• Kansas Water Office

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Missouri River Inundation Maps

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Missouri River Mapping

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State Risk Management Team

Top 3 Team Activities:1. State Hazard Mitigation Plan

Updates2. Inundation Mapping & LiDAR

Sharing3. Working Disasters & Exercises

The team is interested in ► Inundation Mapping, ► Flood Fighting, ► Flood Mitigation, ► Levees, ► Interagency Grant Programs, ► and Sharing LiDAR and Flood

Risk Related Information.

Mitigation

Preparation / Training Response

Recovery

Event

Partnerships·Hazard mitigation planning

·Floodplain management plans

·Pre- & post- response & recovery activities

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Kansas Hazard Mitigation Team

Top 3 Team Activities:1. Maintain State Hazard Mitigation

Plan Updates2. Prioritize mitigation actions across

KS3. Provide technical assistance for

emergency managers in maintaining local hazard mitigation plans

The team is interested in Alternative mitigation actions Strategies for doing mitigation

actions

Mitigation

Preparation / Training Response

Recovery

Event

Partnerships·Hazard mitigation planning

·Floodplain management plans

·Pre- & post- response & recovery activities

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Technical Challenges

• How to map behind levees?• Storage in the floodplains

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Silver Jackets Program with states’ hazard mitigation teamshttp:// www.nfrmp.us/statehttp:// www.nfrmp.us/state/factMissouri.cfmhttp://www.nfrmp.us/state/factKansas.cfm

Wildcat Creek Pilot Project, Manhattan, Kansas► Interagency White Paper

http://www.awra.org/proceedings/Spring2012/doc/abs/BrianRast_5ad7b2de_7818.pdf► USACE National FRM Program Workshop Presentation

http://www.nfrmp.us/frmpw/docs/WORKSHOP/Plenary/4%20-%20Thursday/0830_Rast_121024_FRM-SJ%20Wildcat_Ck_FULL.pdfhttp://www.nfrmp.us/frmpw/docs/WORKSHOP/Plenary/4%20-%20Thursday/0830_Rast_120822_Wildcat_Handout.pdf

► Flood Forecast Inundation Maphttp://water.weather.gov/ahps2/inundation/inundation.php?gage=mwck1

SimSuite Webviewer http://rsc.usace.army.mil/SimSuite/External-Users

Email questions to NWK.SilverJackets@usace.army.mil

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Find Out More

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• The variety of tools on the webpage can help any stakeholder understand their flood risks better

• Inset, including Historical Crests, will be visible for users to relate past flooding to current forecast

• Depth grids are also available, showing water depth associated with any inundation map

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What Can Agencies onState Hazard Mitigation Teams Do?

Will this information be useful? What can it be used for? How does this process align with the state’s hazard mitigation

plan (SHMP)? How will it inform the SHMP? What Actions does this process enable? How can state teams assist communities in the

communication of flood risk (and LSAC assignment)? What can participating agencies do to help communities at

risk? Can team collaboratively work with communities to reduce and manage risk?

Are there additional coordination activities needed?► Two-way updates through state team meetings?► Closer coordination with communities?► Impacts to SHMP process?

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National Flood Risk Management

Silver Jackets • IFRMC • FIFM-TF • ILTF / RFRMTRoundtables • Regional FRM Teams • CERB

EO 11988 • PL 84-99 • Section 404Unified National Plan • Risk MAP

Disaster Response • Mitigation

Land Use Planning / Zoning • Emergency ServicesContingency Response • Evacuation • Flood Fighting

Water Resources Management • Building CodesFloodproofing • Environmental Protection

FEMA • DOI • EPA • NOAA / NWSNOAA CSC • USBR • HUD • USDS • DHS

NRCS • Tribes • States • Locals

Planning • FMPS / PAS • Levee and Dam SafetyFRM Business Line • FRM PCX • RegulatoryEnvironmental • R&D • International • Coastal

National Flood Risk Management

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What Can Cooperation Among Agencies onState Hazard Mitigation Teams Do?

Share information on risk - Why? ► Other agencies can use risk assessments to prepare and mitigate hazards.

Our actions, your actions - How do they inform the SHMP? (interim risk reduction measures)

► Other agencies manage the hazards differently, and may not understand the other agencies’ roles. They may be able to reinforce communication.

Processes vary – What processes get enabled? ► Pre-meditated hazard mitigation (stage one action prepares way for effective

action later) is needed to take advantage of the higher public interest, after an event.

Same message, different agencies - How can state teams assist communities in the communicate and reduce (flood) risk?

► Consolidate known risks in the SHMP with lead actions, specific at the more local level in county HMPs

Stove pipes make us blind - Why meet periodically with SRMT?► Situational awareness enables better hazard mitigation reducing

costs to the state from future damages

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