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CPRA Response Activities Hurricane Isaac

CPRA Response Activities Hurricane Isaac. CPRA Board Meeting September 19, 2012. CPRA Response. As the lead ESF 3 agency, CPRA worked with other state agencies and local entities coordinate pre-storm preparations

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CPRA Response Activities Hurricane Isaac

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  1. CPRA Response ActivitiesHurricane Isaac CPRA Board Meeting September 19, 2012

  2. CPRA Response • As the lead ESF 3 agency, CPRA worked with other state agencies and local entities • coordinate pre-storm preparations • provide equipment, materials and emergency response during and after the storm • During this span of time CPRA provided approximately 60 employees and 2,400 man hours for these efforts • As of this report, post-storm assessments and operations are still ongoing.

  3. CPRA Response PRE-STORM • CPRA working with state & local officials to assess infrastructure resiliency, identify deficiencies in potential material and equipment needs • CPRA began exercising pre-existing contracts and memoranda of understanding for supplies, pumps, equipment, sand, sandbags and response and resilient protective measures • CPRA began delivering pumps to areas of anticipated need, and staging supplies, material and equipment for deployment to any and all other areas as need arose.

  4. CPRA Response STORM IMPACTS (During & after landfall) • CPRA personnel operated and reported from: • GOHSEP • CPRA offices in Baton Rouge, Thibodeaux and New Orleans • Various embedded locations in the impacted areas • CPRA along with Levee Districts and local officials continuously assessed the situation in order to prioritized the allocation of resources.

  5. CPRA Response STORM IMPACTS (During & after landfall) • CPRA provided support and on-scene assessments • potential dam failures in the state of Mississippi and in Tangipahoa Parish • potential lock failure along the Pearl River Navigation Canal in St. Tammany Parish. • CPRA sent personnel and airboats in support of efforts along with the U.S. Corps of Engineers, local levee districts and other local entities • on-scene assessments of area flooding • determine pumping needs in affected parishes • including assessment of potential threats to existing pumps and the infrastructure protecting them • Assisted locals shore up flood protection structures and to protect pumping infrastructure • 6,000 linear feet of Hescobaskets • sand and sandbags

  6. CPRA Response • CPRA provided assistance for de-watering activities • in affected parishes, including the allocation of pumps to:

  7. CPRA Response • CPRA had additional pumping capacity • St. Mary • Terrebonne Though circumstances did not necessitate their mobilization in these areas • In all affected areas, CPRA, DOTD, Corps, and Levee Districts • worked to increase the resiliency of pumps • increase total pumping capacity in areas of greatest need • St. John the Baptist Parish • St. Charles Parish • Plaquemines Parish • Braithwaite and Scarsdale communities • CPRA allocated and re-allocated pumps on a continual basis, deploying pumps as they became available to areas of continuing need.

  8. CPRA Future Response Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary.  Reggie Dupre Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

  9. CPRA Future Response • Strategic Location of Pre-Storm Resources • Sand • Sandbags and Equipment • Resilient Measures • Hesco Baskets, wave fences, etc. • Pumps/Pumping Capacity • Dewatering Plans • Increase Contractual Capacity • Communications

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