Flood Readiness Information Session
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Welcome • Frank Frigo – Lead, River Engineering • About us • Recovery efforts • What The City is doing this year • Understand • Prepare • Stay Informed • Building flood resiliency 2
What we have done since the 2013 Flood • 247 projects underway through the Municipal Infrastructure Recovery Program - examples include: • Erosion sites reinforced to be more flood resilient. • Rebuilt pedestrian bridges designed to be flood resilient.
• Stormwater and sanitary infrastructure repaired and strengthened. • Pathways and recreational areas restored.
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What we are doing this year
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Understand • How river flooding happens • Rainfall in the watershed is the main cause of river flooding in Calgary. • Monitoring
• Current river flow rates • May expect more May-July precipitation due to El Nino.
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Understand • How you can understand flooding and flow rates • calgary.ca/floodinfo has new resources
• Flow rate triggers • Inundation maps
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Prepare What is The City doing to prepare for future floods: • Strengthening our understanding of the rivers: • River Morphology Study (fish habitat, gravel bars) • Groundwater Study • Barrier Study
• Restoring and reinforcing riverbanks , outfalls and bridges to make them more resilient to flooding. • 19 critical and high priority areas completed • Seven more projects to be completed from July 16 to Sept.15, 2015.
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Prepare (cont’d)
• Improving forecasting, monitoring, mapping and emergency response procedures. • Securing $14.9 million in funding for four projects through the Province’s Alberta Community Resilience Program. • • • •
Glenmore Dam Centre Street Bridge lower deck flood barrier improvements Heritage Drive S.E. permanent flood barrier Prioritized stormwater outfall flood gates
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Prepare What you can do to prepare for future floods: • Understand how flooding occurs in Calgary • Know your risk • Make a plan and practice it • Make a kit • Check your eavestroughs and your property Stay Informed… 9
Stay Informed Tools and resources available on calgary.ca/floodinfo • Links to the latest flood advisories from Alberta’s River Forecast Centre. • New flood inundation maps • Updates on current flood risk and progress on flood recovery. • Update on progress of flood resiliency and mitigation.
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Stay Informed to the conversation • Annual Report released today on the implementation of the Expert Management Panel on Flood Mitigation • Sign up for the community newsletter
• Stay connected on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
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Thank You We are here to answer your questions The City of Calgary • Calgary Emergency Management Association • Recovery Operations Centre • River Engineering • Customer Service & Communications • Flood Resiliency & Mitigation Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Calgary River Communities Action Group
TransAlta Utilities
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