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Columbia Basin Floodplain Restora4on – Challenges & Opportuni4es in Policy and Law
Michael Garrity Columbia Basin Mi4ga4on Manager, WDFW Future of Our Salmon Workshop August 18, 2016
SLIDE 2 Overview: Different scales in different places
– Change rule curves – Trea4es (interna4onal, tribal) – ESA, CWA, NFIP
– Shoreline, Growth Management Acts (WA) – Voluntary Stewardship Program (WA) – Integrated Water Management
– Flood Control Zone Districts – Implementa4on of state regs
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Federal floodplain management
– FEMA NFIP BiOp – Corps levee law/policy – ESA driven changes in flows – Interna4onal river mgmt. agreements – Federal restora4on funding – Land management policies – Integrated water management – Implementa4on of federal laws by state and local gov’ts
SLIDE 4 State government
CWA, ESA, CZMA, etc.
funding programs, e.g., Floodplains by Design (WA)
Calistoga Levee Setback on Puyallup River,
- WA. Photo credit: Floodplains by Design, WA
Ecology
SLIDE 5 Local government
federal and state laws
water u4lity planning decisions
Districts
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Yakima Basin Integrated Plan: Passage, flows, and habitat
SLIDE 7 Yakima Plan priori4es overlap with benefits of floodplain restora4on
- Fish restora4on
- Ecosystem protec4on
and restora4on
- Reliable water supply
- Climate change
adapta4on
Photo credit: Tom O’Keefe
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Headwaters protec4on/meadow restora4on
SLIDE 9 Photo credit: Sco_ Nicolai, Yakama Na4on Fisheries
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SLIDE 11 Photos courtesy of Joel Freudenthal, Yakima County
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Army Corps levee management policies: Lessons from lower Green River process
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Increased state funding?
SLIDE 15 WA funding discussion
floodplain restora4on
solu4ons
supply
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Ques4ons?
michael.garrity@dfw.wa.gov
