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Life-Cycle Flood Risk Management
Getting Comfortable with Multiple Protection Mechanisms Alex C. Dornstauder Deputy Director Office of Homeland Security U.S. Army Corps of Engineers December 9, 2010 ® US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG ®
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Life-Cycle Risk Management
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Shared Flood Risk Management
“ Buying Down the Risk “ Initial Risk Outreach Federal / State / Local Natural Storage Federal / State / Local Structural Federal / State / Local Non – Structural Federal / State / Local Contingency Plans Federal / State / Local / Individual Building Codes State / Local Zoning Local Insurance Individual / NFIP Residual Risk All Stakeholders contribute to reducing risk !
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National Flood Risk Management
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Silver Jackets
Inter-Agency Flood Risk Management
State-Led
State sets priorities for Interagency Federal support
Collaborative
Leverage resources: talent, data, funding Facilitate integrated Post-Disaster solutions
Continuous, not project-specific
Life-Cycle Risk Reduction
Watershed Perspective
State teams facilitate regional, state-to-state flood risk management
Active Inter-Governmental Flood Risk Management Team Fully Signed Charter Ongoing Effort to Develop Team As of:
6 DEC 2010
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Objectives and Actions
Synchronize Internal Programs and Activities
With external partners, align, coordinate, and leverage FRM activities at a national scale
Strengthen State and Regional Partnerships
Risk-Based Inspection and Assessment
Enable Risk-Reducing Mitigation by Managing and Aligning Existing Programs
Update Flood Emergency, Flood Fighting, and Rehabilitation to Account for Life-Cycle
Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience ( CIPR )
Collaborate Risk Management with International Partners
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Case Study : Indiana Inundation Study
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Joint development of flood inundation model using:
• NWS flood predictions • USGS gage data • USACE depth damage curves • FEMA’s HAZUS data •
Create real-time model views of flood inundation areas and depths of flooding
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This model is being used by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to
manage and mitigate
flood impacted areas and
emergency response planning
for NWS flood forecasts
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Case Study: Louisa #11, Iowa
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Non-structural alternative to proposed structural repair
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Required cooperation of levees public sponsor, county and state mitigation agencies, USACE, and NRCS
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Combined over 300 acres of NRCS flood plain easements with significantly reduced structural repairs
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1200 acres of formerly protected area returned to floodway
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RESULT:
• Improved environmental habit • Increase flood storage capacity • Continued protection of important state road
HOWEVER, similar efforts in other areas of IA and IL could not be completed, as post event time was not sufficient - need support for pre-planning through Silver Jackets
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Revising Executive Order 11988 on Floodplain Management
Draft Revised EO 11988 submitted to Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) summer 2009
Draft revision does not represent the Administration’s position
Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force ( FIFM-TF ) re-established in early 2010
FIFM-TF developing a 5-year work plan which will consider the need and sequencing for revising EO 11988
Work plan will be based on existing federal government floodplain management activities, programs, executive task forces and orders, and input from listening sessions
Discussions ongoing to decide if EO 11988 will be revised
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Questions ?
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