PANEL ONE

JOSE VILLALOBOS

Worldwide Approaches to Living With Water

Worldwide Approaches to Living With Water

Needs ! Improve hydrological predictions !Assess impacts of natural and anthropogenic climate change !Improve water resource management Proposed Solutions !Regional holistic view combining landscape analysis and hydro-climatic conditions ! Efficient sharing of data and knowledge ! Global watershed classification framework ! Couple meteorological and hydrological models ! Use remote sensing detection to feed models

PANEL ONE

JOSE RAYNAL

PANEL ONE

CRAIG COLTEN

Resilience as a Process:
Govenor McKeithen promised he would establish procedures that will . . . make a repeat of this disaster impossible.

Place Based: Flooding from Hurricane Betsy 1965

US Army Corps of Engineers

Place Based: Hurricane Protection Levees To reduce future flooding. 1965

New Orleans Times Picayune

Social Memory: Local evacuation to schools.

New Orleans Public Library

RESPOND: Improve government coordination

Redevelop Carrollton Ave.

Recovery: Recovery part of planning process.

Rebuild Lower 9th

Renew Canal Street

PANEL ONE

CHRIS PULASKI

Trouble in Sportsman s Paradise? www.vanishingparadise.org

PANEL ONE

MARK DAVIS

PANEL TWO

RICHARD CAMPANELLA

PANEL TWO

BAS JONKMAN

Building resilience and flood risk management

Dr. Bas Jonkman

National Water plan on safety

New flood defence policy -> new safety standards, based on: ! Individual risk ! Societal risk ! Cost Benefit Analysis Consider different layers of protection:

Almere case
! Build 50,000 new homes in the deep polder ! Increase in consequences ! Consequence reduction considered:
! Mounds ! Super levees

! So far: not feasible due

Existing levee

800 new homes

Scheveningen / The Hague case

Different options considered: -! building resilience -! Moving the sea defence forward

Scheveningen / The Hague case

Closing remarks
! Need to find a balance between different layers of protection ! High level of protection: difficult to justify building resilience behind the levees ! Trend: investigate combinations of flood protection and spatial development (on the levees): delta dikes

Flood threats infloods the Netherlands Rainfall

Failure of local flood defences

Failure of primary flood defences

Flooding of unembanked areas

PANEL THREE

DON BLANCHER

Don Blancher
Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration, LLC & GroundworkNOLA

Krasney & Tidball, 2009

Krasney & Tidball, 2009

PANEL THREE

AMANDA MOORE

!"#$%&'()*)+,-% ",)+(./0(1

!"#$%&'()*)+,-% ",)+(./0(1%

PANEL FOUR

ELIZABETH ENGLISH

For over 30 years, amphibious houses at Raccourci Old River have been rising and falling reliably with the level of flooding of the Mississippi River.

Dry in September . . . The same house

. . . Floating in February

Average cost of buoyancy system is around $5,000.

Dry in September . . . The same house

. . . Floating in February

Buoyant foundations are not new!

Dry in September . . . The same house

. . . Floating in February

So why fight floodwater when you can float on it?

How it works
Section drawing of a shotgun house with a buoyant foundation installed, showing buoyancy blocks under the house and vertical guidance poles that telescope out of the ground

Figure Created by Stuart Broussard

Comparison of 3 Conditions

House on traditional masonry piers

House elevated to 8 feet

House with a Buoyant Foundation

Figure Created by Stuart Broussard

NOW ADD WATER . . .

Existing Shotgun House Shotgun House Elevated to 6ft Shotgun House on a Buoyant Foundation
Figure Created by Stuart Broussard

WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Completed buoyant foundation

Aerial view

Moving the sandbags to tilt the house

Let's be sure this never happens again

Flooded shotgun house, New Orleans, 8 Sept 2005

English

photo by E. C.

www.buoyantfoundation.org

PANEL FOUR

PRITHULA PROSUN

PANEL FIVE

YARROW ETHEREDGE

Yarrow Etheredge
Best National Practices Implemented Locally

PANEL SIX

BILL COULBOURNE

ATC Past
! Several are landmark documents that have changed engineering practice
ATC-3: Basis for seismic design provisions of UBC ATC-20: Post-EQ safety evaluation FEMA 154 (ATC-21): Rapid visual screening

ATC Past
! ATC-14 Evaluating the Seismic Resistance of Existing Buildings (1987)
! Superseded three times FEMA 178, FEMA 310, ASCE 31

ATC Present
! Extremely active in earthquake field ! Additional emphasis:
! High wind design ! Flood design issues

! Documents, books, training

ATC Present - Wind

05 10

ATC Present - Flood

A Report on the Real Risk of Flooding A Pre-standard for Determining Flood Risk Based on Vulnerability and Consequences ?????
Applied Technology Council

PANEL SIX

MIKE HUNNICUTT

Process for Flood Mapping

Flood Mapping Project Phases
Community Coordination & Mapping Needs Assessment Project Scoping (Three phases) Data Acquisition and Engineering Analysis Post Preliminary Processing

DFIRM Production

Preliminary DFIRM

FEMA DFIRM Post Preliminary Process

Community Consultation Officers (CCO) Meeting & Public Open House

Preliminary DFIRM

Appeal & Protest Period

Appeals Resolved

Letter of Final
Determination

Community Adopts Map

Effective DFIRM

Varies

30 Days

90 Days

Varies

6 Months