City leaders embarked on an ambitious $13M Watershed Master Plan program in 2019 to better understand the magnitude and severity of flooding across the entire city and proactively develop flood mitigation projects. Leaders understood that a comprehensive evaluation would support resiliency by providing a pool of prioritized projects for both short-and long-term implementation. This effort will stretch resources equitably, identify creative regional-scale projects, and ensure inter-governmental and cross-departmental collaborations. This program is unique in that the foundation was established within four years, to include an intensive rebuild of the city stormwater geodatabase (GDB) and schema, a city-wide survey, parallel modeling efforts by several consulting teams, scoring and ranking concern areas, and development of over 100 projects. Participants will learn about elements needed to build or augment their own program, communicate results, and inform prioritization schemes.
 
Learning Objectives

After attending this session, participants will be better able to:

  1. Identify elements needed to build or augment their own Watershed Master Plan program.
  2. Visualize and communicate flooding impacts and proposed mitigation solutions.
  3. Inform their scoring and prioritization schemes.

Contributor/Source

Alicia Lanier;Sheila Thomas-Ambat

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