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L OU IS IA N A WAT E R S H E D IN IT IAT IV E

ADDRESSING CHALLENGES ACROSS STATE LINES

J U N E 1 2 , 2 0 1 9

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WELCOME

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INTRODUCTIONS & SUMMIT OBJECTIVES

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Welcome

Mayor Lorenz Walker

Bossier City

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Introductions

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Overview & Summit Objectives

Alex Gelpi Carter, AICP

Program Manager / Louisiana Office of Community Development

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ABOUT

WATERSHEDS

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What is a Watershed?

The land area that drains to a single water body - affects water quality and quantity in the water body that it surrounds.

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Guiding Principles of a Watershed Management Approach

PA RT N E R S H IP S : Those most affected by management decisions are involved throughout

and shape key decisions.

GE OGR A P H IC F OC U S : Activities are directed within specific geographic areas, typically

those that drain to surface water bodies or that recharge or overlay ground waters or a combination of both.

S OU N D MA N A GE ME N T T E C H N IQU E S B A S E D ON S T R ON G S C IE N C E A N D D ATA : Collectively, watershed stakeholders employ sound scientific data, tools, and

techniques in an iterative decision-making process

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Louisiana’s Watersheds

Our watersheds are not defined by our political boundaries.

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Updates

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

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Louisiana’s State Claimed Waterbodies

• 900 named bayous
• 110 named rivers
• 242 named lakes

Actions in one community can impact entire systems.

( S O U R C E : L O U I S I A N A S TAT E L A N D S O F F I C E A N D L O U I S I A N A D N R ’ S S O N R I S G E O D ATA B A S E )

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Elevation and Hydrography

Louisiana is very FLAT. We are the fourth-flattest state in the nation. Within the flatter (orange, brown, yellow) areas, it becomes more difficult to predict how water will be absorbed.

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Special Flood Hazard Areas

Regulated by FEMA through the National Flood Insurance Program

• 26,826 square miles in the SFHA
• 51.21% of the State

( S O U R C E : L O U I S I A N A W AT E R S H E D R E S I L I E N C Y S T U D Y. M A P 3 . 5 . 1 . F E M A ; D AT E D U P D AT E D 2 0 J U LY 2 0 1 7 )

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2016 August and March Floods

Combined total of 145,000 structures impacted. More than 7.1 trillion gallons of rain.

IMPACTED STRUCTURES n August 2016 Floods n March 2016 Floods

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Summit Objectives

• Continue to define the problem
• Develop relationships needed to

solve, stimulate solutions

• Partner in the work to reduce

duplication of effort and increase impact

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Intro to the Louisiana Watershed Initiative

Patrick Forbes, P.E.

Executive Director / Louisiana Office of Community Development

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ABOUT

THE LOUISIANA WATERSHED INITIATIVE

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Timeline

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Reduce flood risk and improve floodplain management across the state, including through maximizing the natural and beneficial functions

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OUR MISSION

L OU IS IA N A WAT E R S H E D IN IT IAT IV E

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FUNDING STANDARDS

INTEGRATED PLANNING CAPABILITY & CAPACITY

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DATA

ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Areas

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The goal is to improve water management to proactively address flood risk and mitigation.

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WE UNDERSTAND

• Water knows no boundaries.
• It requires a new way of thinking.
• It requires a watershed approach.
• We need to address inland and coastal

flooding to mitigate future flood loss.

What do we know today about water management and flood risk reduction?

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PILOT PROJECTS:

• Amite River Basin Model
• State Agency Resilience

Internal Audit

• State Agency H&H Model

Use in Project Prioritization

• H&H Model Use in Local

Development Review

Current efforts tailor best practices to LA

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DATA & MODELING

• Extensive Data Gap Analysis
• RFQs for 7 modeling

watershed regions currently advertised

• Investigation re:

implementation statewide monitoring network anticipated May 30th

Current efforts tailor best practices to LA

PILOT PROJECTS:

• Amite River Basin Model
• State Agency Resilience

Internal Audit

• State Agency H&H Model

Use in Project Prioritization

• H&H Model Use in Local

Development Review

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DATA & MODELING

• Extensive Data Gap Analysis
• RFQs for 7 modeling

watershed regions currently advertised

• Investigation re:

implementation statewide monitoring network anticipated May 30th

Current efforts tailor best practices to LA

PILOT PROJECTS:

• Amite River Basin Model
• State Agency Resilience

Internal Audit

• State Agency H&H Model

Use in Project Prioritization

• H&H Model Use in Local

Development Review REGIONAL MANAGEMENT

• Consensus building

around provisional regional watershed boundaries/steering committee composition

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Louisiana Watershed Initiative Listens

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engineers, planners, floodplain managers, public works staff, emergency responders, code enforcement staff, elected officials, and more

FALL 2018

8 REGIONAL CONFERENCES

Locals informing the process

S TAT E W I D E L I S T E N I N G TO U R

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engineers, planners, floodplain managers, public works staff, emergency responders, code enforcement staff, elected officials, and more

WINTER 2019

TWO DAYS IN HARD HIT AREAS

National experts informing the process

local, state, and national experts in attendance and another 1,000+ who joined us online

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International Best Practices Workshop with Henk Ovink

MAY 24, 2019 Center for Coastal and Deltaic Solutions, Baton Rouge

Ovink shared his experiences addressing flood risk in The Netherlands and around the world (e.g., overlapping jurisdictions and long-term governance around flood risk issues) LWI Council and technical advisory group members were able to share their most pressing challenges, ask questions and seek guidance to guide ongoing program and planning efforts

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International Best Practices Workshop with Henk Ovink

MAY 24, 2019 Center for Coastal and Deltaic Solutions / Baton Rouge, LA

Ovink shared his experiences addressing flood risk in The Netherlands and around the world (e.g., overlapping jurisdictions and long-term governance around flood risk issues) LWI Council and technical advisory group members were able to share their most pressing challenges, ask questions and seek guidance to guide ongoing program and planning efforts

“Data without THE PROCESS is worthless.” “Focusing on both long-term GOVERNANCE and short-term DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS will be key to the Initiative’s success.” – Henk Ovink

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SPRING 2019

36 PARISHES – PART 1

Local leaders inform the process

To date, we’ve engaged nearly 190 attendees Representative of 36 parishes located in the state’s most impacted watersheds

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Provisional Regional Steering Committees

SHARING RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESILIENT DECISION-MAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION

Regional Steering Committees

• Organized within

watershed-based boundaries

• 11-13 residents with

diverse areas of expertise in watershed issues

Continuous input from additional stakeholders and experts Technical Advisory Groups Council on Watershed Management

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Provisional Regional Geographic Boundaries

DRAFT: FOR DISCUSSION

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WE ’R E L IS T E N IN G

Parish Leadership Meetings Recap

REGIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

Floodplain manager Drainage or levee district Local engineer Planning/de velopment district Soil/water conservatio n Builder, developer Environme ntal nonprofit Regional chamber of commerce Real estate, insurance

• r banking

Other Series1 8.7 8.5 8.1 7.1 6.9 5.1 5.1 5 5 2.9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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$1.2B CDBG-MIT Funding

REQUIRED NEXT STEPS ARE TIME CONSUMING

1. Updated Action Plan (in development) in response to FRN 2. LWI Council Meeting to review/approve summary & budget 3. Proposed Action Plan published, including a minimum 30-day period for citizen review and comment (pre-submittal) 4. HUD review and approval of the Action Plan takes up to 45 days; more to address comments, revisions, or plan denial 5. Before disbursing funds to any organization that is carrying out CDBG activities, a written agreement must be executed

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Round 1 Funding Opportunity

Projects PENDING HUD GUIDANCE

WAT E R S H E D R E G I O N S S TAT E W I D E

$40M $60M COMPETITIVE PROCESS COOPERATIVE

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Round 1 Eligible Activities

Projects LOW RISK, HIGH REWARD PROJECTS

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Thank You

WAT E R S H E D . L A . G O V WAT E R S H E D @ L A . G O V

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Existing Interstate Compacts in Louisiana

Harry J. Vorhoff

Assistant Attorney General / Office of the Louisiana Attorney General

Louisiana’s Interstate Compacts

Harry J. Vorhoff Assistant Attorney General Environmental Section Chief, Louisiana Department of Justice Counsel to the Louisiana Commissioners of the Red River Compact Commission and Sabine River Compact Administration

Overview

• Why enter into interstate water compacts?
• How are they administered?
• Case studies
• Lessons learned

Why enter into interstate water compacts?

Red River Compact

Principal purposes:

• Equitable apportionment of water;
• Promote interstate comity and remove causes of controversy;
• Control and alleviate deterioration and pollution of the water

and provide for enforcement of related laws;

• Conserve water, protect lives and property from floods,

improve water quality, develop navigation and regulate flows in the Red River Basin; and

• Provide a basis for state or joint state planning and action by

ascertaining and identifying each state’s share in the water.

Sabine River Compact

Principal purposes:

• Equitable apportionment of water;
• Removing the causes of present and future controversy between the

States over the conservation and utilization of the water;

• Encourage the development, conservation, and utilization of the

water; and

• Establish a basis for cooperative planning and action by the States

for the construction, operation, and maintenance of projects for water conservation and utilization purposes, and for the apportionment of benefits of such projects

Creation

• Negotiated by the states à contract
• Approved by the legislatures of the interested states

and signed by the governor à state law

• Approved by Congress à federal law
• Red River Compact negotiated for 20 years before

ratified in 1980

• Sabine River Compact negotiated for at least four

years before ratified in 1955

What’s in a Compact?

• Purpose
• Apportionment
• Administration
• Dispute resolution
• Compliance and enforcement
• Withdrawal and termination
• Other matters

Defining the Resource

• Sabine River Compact:
• “Waters of the Sabine River” means the waters either originating in the

natural drainage basin of the Sabine River, or appearing as streamflow in said River and its tributaries, from its headwater sources down to the mouth of the River where it enters into Sabine Lake

• Red River Compact:
• “Runoff” means both the portion of precipitation which runs off the

surface of a drainage area and that portion of the precipitation that enters the streams after passing through the portions of the earth.

Apportionment

• Divided into reaches or

sub-basins

• Sabine River
• Texas has free use of all water

above stateline reach

• States have equal share in the

stateline reach

• Red River
• Divided into five reaches
• Each reach divided into sub-

basins

Red River Compact Jurisdiction

Tarrant Reg’l Water Dist. v. Herrmann, 569 U.S. 614 (2013).

Sabine River Compact Jurisdiction

Credit: SRA-Texas

Administration

• Interstate administrative agency
• Each State has two commissioners who are

appointed by their respective governors

• Each commissioner gets a vote
• Non-voting federal chair who is appointed by the

President of the United States

Powers of Compact Agencies

• Make findings, reports, etc. (e.g. annual reports)
• Collect data
• Enter into contracts
• Investigate violations
• Acquire property and hire personnel

Image credit: Jack Moreh

Dispute Resolution

Photo credit: 20381.10, Stan Oliner Collection, OHS. https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=RE007

Dispute Resolution

• Sabine River Compact:
• In case of tie vote, must arbitrate before taking legal action in court
• Red River Compact:
• Six (of eight) concurrent votes needed for any action concerned with the

administration of the Compact or any action requiring compliance with specific terms

• If proposed action affects existing water rights in a State, and that action

is not expressly provided for in this Compact, eight concurring votes are required.

• Last resort: Supreme Court of the United States

Tarrant Reg’l Water Dist. V. Herrmann

• Oklahoma law regulated and limited out-of-state

diversion of Red River and its tributaries

• Texas filed suit against Oklahoma, seeking to stop

enforcement of regulations limiting out-of-state diversion and use

• Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of

Oklahoma, finding that the Compact maintained state sovereignty over waters while within its borders

Reach IV, Sub-basin 2 of Red River

• Louisiana gets 40% of the weekly runoff.
• No guarantee to maintain a minimum flow for

Louisiana.

• Arkansas pledges to take affirmative steps to allow

an equitable apportionment of the runoff when flows get below certain rate

• How to compute weekly runoff and compliance?

Questions?

Harry Vorhoff Chief, Environmental Section Louisiana Office of the Attorney General vorhoffh@ag.louisiana.gov

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Updates from Neighboring States

Stacey Ricks, CFM Mississippi Emergency Management Agency

L O U I S I A N A W A T E R S H E D I N I T I A T I V E

58 Shawn Strange, PMP Texas General Land Office Facilitated by: Sandra Gunner Louisiana Office of Community Development Disaster Recovery Unit

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State of Texas – Flood Mitigation

Texas General Land Office

Community Development & Revitalization

“We work to rebuild communities, to put Texans back in their homes, and to help businesses recover after the trauma of disaster.” George P. Bush Texas General Land Office Commissioner

CDR

FEMA/TDEM/TWDB

Federal Funding Streams:

• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program

(Sec. 404)

• Public Assistance Program – Mitigation

(Sec. 406)

• Flood Mitigation Assistance Program
• Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program

à Building Resilient Infrastructure & Communities (2020)

CDR

FEMA – Hazard Mitigation (Harvey)

Hazard Mitigation General Technical Assistance & Outreach Initiative:

• Focuses on 78 communities prioritized based on level of

impact as well as community capacity

Watershed Risk-Analysis Data Resource:

• Building resiliency from the perspective of an entire

watershed, not governmental jurisdictions

• Holistic strategy for prioritizing funding
• Flood impacts in 21 watersheds

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Texas: Silver Jackets - USACE

Vision:

• To increase efficiency and coordination

between the State and Federal governments in developing comprehensive and sustainable solutions to flood risk management in the State

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Texas Flood Resiliency Activity Tracker (TxFRAT):

• Web-based mapping system that highlights

flood risk identification and mitigation projects throughout the state

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Texas: CHARM - TAMU

Community Health And Resource Management (CHARM):

• Map and analyze growth with real-time

feedback

• Data about urbanization, storm surges,

conservation, public facilities, and coastal resources

• Leverage local community knowledge for

better long-term planning

CDR

Texas: State Hazard Mitigation Plan

Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM):

• Mitigation Section maintains plan
• Reviews Local Mitigation Plans
• Provides hazard mitigation training
• State Plan as of October 2018
• Pre-Disaster Mitigation grant program

CDR

Texas: State Water Coordination Efforts

Texas Water Development Board (TWDB):

• Comprehensive water planning process
• Water management strategies and associated costs

Texas Water Infrastructure Coordination Committee (TWICC):

• Collaborative effort by state and federal government

agencies

• Promoting strategies for water and wastewater

projects

CDR

Texas: Coastal Resiliency Master Plan

March 2019 (2nd Iteration):

• Vision to protect coastal communities
• Technical Advisory Committee

Recommendations:

• 123 Tier 1 Projects
• 4 Coastal Regions

CDR

Texas: Eye of the Storm Report

Eye of the Storm Report:

• Governor’s Commission to Rebuild Texas

following Hurricane Harvey

Recommendations:

• 38 of 44 Recommendations influenced 86th

Legislative Session and subsequent bills

CDR

Hurricane Harvey: Texas at Risk

Texas at Risk Report:

• Report by the Texas General Land Office.
• Captures lessons learned from Hurricane

Harvey response

Recommendations:

• 18 Policy Recommendations

CDR

Texas 86th Legislative Session

HB 6:

• TDEM to develop a Disaster Recovery

Task Force to assist with long-term disaster recovery HB 7:

• Disaster preparation for state agencies and

political subdivisions

• Eliminate administrative red tape tied to

emergency management functions

CDR

Texas 86th Legislative Session

SB 6:

• TDEM to create a disaster response and recovery

guide

SB 7:

• Creates Flood Infrastructure Fund
• Creates Texas Infrastructure Resiliency Fund

SB 8:

• Mandates TWDB to create a Texas State Flood Plan

and revise every 5 years

• Mandates TWDB to create a 10-year Dam Repair

and Maintenance Plan and revise every 10 years

Photo: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune

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• $4.3 billion
• 2015 Floods, 2016 Floods, and

Hurricane Harvey

• Anticipate 140 Eligible Counties
• HUD Federal Register Notice

pending

• Mitigation Stakeholder

Input

CDBG-DR Mitigation Funding

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What is Mitigation:

• Effort to reduce loss of life and property by

lessening the impact of disasters

Action Plan Development:

• Takes administrative regulations and turns

them into actionable programs

• Blueprint that proposes to HUD and

stakeholders how grantee intends to spend the funds

CDBG-DR Mitigation Funding

CDR

Texas Composite Disaster Vulnerability

CDR

Texas Major River Basins

Interstate Collaboration:

• More effective approaches to

watershed and flood management

Looking to the Future:

• Innovative ideas and

technologies (e.g. GIS, LiDAR)

• Maximizing local mitigation

strategies

CDR

Shawn M. Strange

shawn.strange.glo@recovery.texas.gov

Website

recovery.texas.gov

Email

cdr@recovery.texas.gov

State of Texas – Flood Mitigation

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Addressing Statewide Water Risks

Mindy Conyers, Ph.D. Texas Water Development Board

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Water Risks in Louisiana

Christopher J. Dalbom Assistant Director

cdalbom@Tulane.edu

Watershed Initiative Interstate Summit June 12, 2019

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Break Out Session 1

Track A: Modeling, Mapping and Data Sharing across State Lines Track B: Reducing Flood Risk through Policies, Standards and Ordinances

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Track C: Helping Communities Understand Local Flood Risk Track D: Working with Federal Partners, Programs and Funds

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Report Out Q & A

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Closing Remarks

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THANK YOU

watershed@la.gov