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IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration

National HIC Meeting July 8-10, 2009. IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration. Victor Hom Hydrologic Services Division Office of Climate, Water and Weather NOAA’s National Weather Service. NOAA National Weather Service OCWWS HSD Dam Safety Efforts. Since October 2008, OCWWS

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IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration

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  1. National HIC Meeting July 8-10, 2009 IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration Victor Hom Hydrologic Services Division Office of Climate, Water and Weather NOAA’s National Weather Service

  2. NOAA National Weather Service OCWWS HSD Dam Safety Efforts • Since October 2008, OCWWS • HSD have been actively • re-promoting NWS Dam • Emergency Warning Services • to Federal Partners at the • following National Meetings: • FEMA-led Interagency Coordination of Dam Safety (ICODS) • FEMA-led National Dam Safety Review Board (NDSRB) • FERC-led NDSRB Emergency Action Plan (EAP) Workgroup • Emergency Management Institute of National Dam Safety Technical Seminar #16 • DHS-led Dam Sector Government Coordinating Council • ASFPM Dam Work Group

  3. National Weather Service in Action Dam Break Coordination NWS Key Player www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/damfailure/publications.shtm

  4. National Weather Service in Action • Flash Flood Services • The NWS is the sole federal agency authorized to issue flood and flash flood warnings. • Flash flood services are described in NWSI 10-921 and defined in 10-922 • Dual Polarization project to improve precipitation estimation. • High Resolution Precipitation Estimator (~1x1 km) • Gridded FFG and FFPI • Distributed Modeling at flash flood scale http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/010/010.htm

  5. National Weather Service in Action Dam Break Coordination NWS Instruction 10-921 Pertaining to dam emergencies, the responding Weather Forecast Office (WFO) shall: • confirm report, • issue the appropriate initial product • make contact, • issue follow-up product, and • issue flood warnings for lower reach (if needed). http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/010/010.htm

  6. NOAA National Weather Service OCWWS HSD Dam Safety Efforts • During FY09 Q2, NWS submitted • two proposal for consideration • of ICODS funding, as part of the • NDSRB Dam Safety Research: • Improved Guidance for NWS Dam Break Forecasting • OHD and OCWWS Proposal • Fekadu Moreda, Seann Reed, Ernie Wells, Victor Hom • Integration of Dam Operations, Emergency Management, and Warning Services – An Interoperable System for Rapid Response Dambreak/Flood Modeling • NOAA AND USACE Proposal • Don Cline, Victor Hom, John Hunter, Jerry Webb

  7. NWS Collaboration with FEMA, USACE, and USGS • Integrated Water Resources Science and Services • Strengthen the Collaboration during dam failures: • Transparent transfer of model data and modeling capabilities. • Improve rapid response to dam failures.

  8. IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration Scope of the Project: NWS and USACE will develop and demonstrate a common operating environment to facilitate information sharing, modeling and communication related to dambreak situations. The demonstration will focus on several large USACE-owned dams to develop, implement and test the new capabilities. The work will be conducted in a manner that facilitates future extension to dams owned by others and to other regions.

  9. IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration Scope of the Project: (continued) … establishing system-level linkages between the principal systems used by USACE and NWS for reservoir management operations, dambreak analyses, river and flood forecasting operations, and the generation of watches and warnings. … implementing within NWS the modeling tools and other capabilities necessary to internally execute USACE-prepared dambreak models, perform simulations, and test scenarios, to visualize the dambreak model results, and communicate these results to others.

  10. IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration • Timeline: • In May 2009, FEMA approved the NOAA-USACE Proposal • In June 2009, FEMA asked for a detailed project plan. • In July 2009, OCWWS will be developing FEMA MOU for NOAA services • In Sep 2009, NOAA and USACE will evaluate candidate locations to develop this interoperability

  11. IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration • Initial Thoughts • Use the ICODS funds and leverage with other USACE Dam Breach proposed activities. • Consider locations where USACE and RFCs have strong collaboration in data transfers, coordination, and modelling capabilities. • Coordinate with DHS on testing this capability such as DES exercise.

  12. IWRSS Dam Failure Collaboration Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

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