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Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes. Mayor T.M. Franklin Cownie City of Des Moines December 8, 2010. HOW DID WE GET HERE?. ‘93 FLOODS: Gravity Isn’t Enough ‘08 FLOODS: Levees Involves Standards ‘10 FLOODS: Design Capacity Exceeded. Flood Impacts: Court Avenue.
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Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes Mayor T.M. Franklin Cownie City of Des Moines December 8, 2010
HOW DID WE GET HERE? ‘93 FLOODS: Gravity Isn’t Enough ‘08 FLOODS: Levees Involves Standards ‘10 FLOODS: Design Capacity Exceeded Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes
Flood Impacts: Court Avenue Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes
Flood Impacts: Birdland Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes
Flood Impacts: Birdland Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes
Flood Fighting Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes
POST 1993 IMPROVEMENTS • $77 Million in improvements • $33 Million in Federal Funds • Reconstruction of two major levees currently underway • 32 pump facilities & two additional pump stations to be completed in 2011 500 Year Flood Map Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes
WHERE FROM HERE? Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes • Greater Pump Capacity for System and Levee Protection • Separation of Combined Sewers • Strategic Acquisition of Floodway Property
Birdland Levee Reconstruction Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes
FEDERAL PROCESS CHANGESS Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes • Simplify the paper work process • paperwork and process for mitigation grants is excessive, and a huge time burden for local communities • Streamline the Post Disaster Hazard Mitigation Process for buyout properties • takes a long period of time before real assistance is available, and often leaves property owners with very few options at a time when they need immediate assistance • Allow local program expenditures to be reimbursed if FEMA guidelines are followed. • local match is difficult to budget for, allow some form of repayment
FEDERAL PROCESS CHANGESS Emerging Urban Flood Management Policy Changes • Pre-flood mitigation programs are preferable, and more are needed • Encourage watershed-wide approach to flood management, and allow regulation to be imposed that causes development to consider and mitigate the downstream impact • A means to offset the local impact of purchase/maintenance of City-owned flood plain • As more and more property is bought out and deed restricted and returned to the flood plain, it adds more and more property that a city owns and must maintain, while further reducing taxable property values.