Snohomish County Public Works, Cascadia Consulting Group, and the Snohomish Conservation District will discuss their process for updating their decision-making priorities to include climate change risks and the impact on infrastructure, fish and river ecosystems, farms, and agriculture. Snohomish County Public Works and Cascadia developed a customized Climate Impacts Decision Support Tool to facilitate systematic integration of climate change considerations into public works design, siting, planning and implementation. Currently, the tool focuses on (1) transportation planning, (2) habitat restoration, and (3) surface water infrastructure. The Conservation District is leading the effort to create an Agriculture Resilience Plan focusing on the impact of flooding, sea level rise, saltwater intrusion, and rising groundwater levels on local farms.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the role of leadership in setting the direction for how organizations address climate change and adjust decision-making.

2. Conceptualize how your infrastructure projects may be impacted by climate risks and how design engineers may easily access and consider climate risk data.

3. Articulate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and how these can be integrated into a more comprehensive approach to floodplain management.

Contributor/Source

Andrea Martin;Brenden McLane;Charlie Green P.E.;Cindy Dittbrenner;Manuela Winter;Steve Thomsen

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