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FDRWG Update
Rita Albrecht | NW Region Director MN Department of Natural Resources
Flood Damage Reduction Work Group Update
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FDRWG Update Rita Albrecht | NW Region Director MN Department of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
FDRWG Update Rita Albrecht | NW Region Director MN Department of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
FDRWG Update Rita Albrecht | NW Region Director MN Department of Natural Resources Flood Damage Reduction Work Group Update 4/2/2019 2 FDRWG Background Created by the Mediation Agreement in 1998 Collaborative approach to implementing flood
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FDRWG Background
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Created by the Mediation Agreement in 1998 Collaborative approach to implementing flood damage reduction and natural resource protection and enhancement in the Red Rive Basin Co-chaired by MN DNR (Rita Albrecht) and RRWMB (Dan Money)
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FDRWG Background
Annual Budget $264,000 legislative appropriation Membership includes representatives from state and federal agencies, watershed districts, citizens, landowners, agriculture, and conservation interests Updated FDRWG membership including naming Dan Money as FDRWG co- chair and updated TSAC membership
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FDRWG Background
Committees
- TSAC – Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee
- Finance
- Communications
- Water Quality Monitoring (ad hoc)
- Strategic Planning Subgroup
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FDRWG Background
Project Team Support
- Watershed project teams are working to develop
projects in 8 districts.
- Watershed Project teams reported $1,054,789 spent
- n project development in FY 18 and thus far in FY 19.
- Exploring 23 individual projects
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Project Monitoring
Implement a nutrient and sediment load monitoring strategy Conduct Rapid Floristic Quality Assessments at the Klondike project site in the Two Rivers Watershed District Develop a “story map” based reporting method to encompass all project monitoring efforts and aid in writing EAs and EAWs, and
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Hold quarterly Red River Basin Monitoring Advisory Committee meetings Train 31 (professionals + volunteer) water quality staff that collect data at sites around the basin
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2018 Accomplishments
Project Team Support – $143,478 distributed to seven watershed districts Project Acceleration Funding
- $23,000 allocated to two
watershed districts Project Monitoring - $85,000 water quality monitoring, training, and reporting and leveraged $85,000 matching funds from RRWMB
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2018 Accomplishments
Communication and Outreach – Flyers, surveys, etc. Work Group Meetings and Conference – $10,000 to plan and co-hosted annual conference Strategic Planning – Established a Strategic Planning Committee to review FDRWG documents
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Strategic Planning
- Sub-committee has completed their review of the
Mediation Agreement
- Consensus that the Mediation Agreement remains
a strong document
- Recommendations to the FDRWG for some updates
to be added via an addendum
- 20 years of progress in flood damage reduction
- Enhanced awareness of NREs based on research
Established a sub-committee to review the Mediation Agreement and Project Team Handbook
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Strategic Planning
- TP #3 is being updated.
- Identified papers needing updates, or
addendums and summaries.
- TSAC is discussing topics that could merit a
technical paper.
- TSAC is preparing a report to FDRWG on
updates needed and other topics that should be researched.
TSAC reviewed technical papers for needed updates
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Strategic Planning
Review project team process handbook and make recommendations for updates Seek a holistic view of FDRWG work with stakeholders in the Basin Define what our work includes
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Still working on . . . .
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