Green meadow Project Team - PowerPoint Presentation

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Green meadow Project Team

2nd MeetingJanuary 29th, 2014Wild Rice Watershed District OfficesSlide2

Agenda

1st Meeting Review2nd Meeting Objectives

Watershed

Problem

Statement (action)

Goals (action)

Strategies/Alternatives

Strategies/Alternatives

to

Consider/Not Consider

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PROJECT TEAM GOAL

Develop viable strategy option(s) to solve known problem(s) within Upper Green Meadow Subwatershed for Wild Rice River Watershed District Board of Managers considerationCompletion: Spring 2014

Anticipate 1- 6

MeetingsSlide4

1st Meeting Objectives

Provide Background InformationMN Mediation Agreement and ProcessEstablish Project Team Process/Ground Rules

Identify and Prioritize Water Resource Problems in the Upper Green Meadow Watershed

Determine if there is Agreement Among Project Team Representatives that the Problem(s) is/are Severe Enough to Warrant Action by the Wild Rice Watershed District

Develop

Green Meadow Watershed Problem StatementSlide5

Process…some relevant quotes

“Never mistake activity for accomplishment”(John Wooden, 1910-2001)

“The key to failure is trying to please everybody”

(Bill Cosby, 1937 -)Slide6

Process…Project development Steps

Problem IdentificationExisting Watershed ConditionGoal(s), Purpose, and Need

Range of Alternatives/Alternatives Evaluation

Selection of Preferred Alternative(s)Slide7

Process….Roles and Responsibilities

WATERSHED DISTRICT (Statutory Authority)Identify Areas of ConcernInvite Stakeholders to Serve on PTCoordinate MeetingsArrange for FacilitatorRecord Keeping

Communication with PT Members

BOARD MEMBERS

PT Direction, Focus, Support

Considering Alternatives

Taking Action (DECISION-MAKING BODY)Slide8

process…roles and responsibilities

UPPER GREAN MEADOW PROJECT TEAMRepresent Stakeholder ConstituencyIdentify Problems and Opportunities for FDR/NREFormulate and Evaluate Alternative(s) to Address Problems and OpportunitiesRecommend Preferred Alternative to Wild Rice Watershed District Board

Identify and Clarify Regulatory Requirements and Permitting

Review/Comment on Key Project Documents

Assist if the Formulation of Operating/Monitoring Plans

DECISION-MAKING…Slide9

Process…

Project team Decision-makingConsensus – Individuals collectively make a choiceSlide10

Process…

Project team Decision-making“I CAN LIVE WITH IT”Slide11

Process – Final word…

Project team Decision-makingConsensus – Individuals collectively make a choice“I can live with it”Three Kinds of Believers (C. Wright Mills)

Vulgar

Critical

SophisticatedSlide12

Process…roles and responsibilities

Facilitator/Watershed Administrator/Consulting Engineer/FDRWG CoordinatorNOT PT Member – no participation in developing alternativesGuide PT – FDRWG Mediation AgreementMonitor - Ground Rules, PT DynamicsAsk Questions

Clarify Issues

Worker Bee

Provide Information

Manage Process

Create Products (notes, reports, etc.)Slide13

Ground rules/Expectations…Project Team meeting/discussion

Everyone ParticipatesNo Single “Right” AnswerKeep an Open Mind (Sophisticated Thinker)Listen to OthersKeep Discussion on TrackTry to Understand the Views with Whom you Disagree

Ask Questions

Disagreements OK

Strive for “I can Live with it”Slide14

Ground rules/Expectations…Project Team Communication

Constituency – Communication LeadWatershed District Board - WD AdministratorPress Media – WD AdministratorStakeholders – Project Team MembersIf consensus cannot be reached, the Project Team member(s) with a minority opposing opinion, shall work with the “Additional Resources Team” to prepare a minority report for the Wild Rice Watershed District Board Slide15

GROUND Rules/Expectations…Project Team Participation

“Snooze you Loose” RuleSlide16

2nd Meeting Objectives:

Approve/Finalize DRAFT Green Meadow Watershed Problem Statement*Establish

Goals

Establish Range of Possible

AlternativesSlide17

Green meadow problem statement (Draft)

Handout(s)PT Input (Location? Extent? Frequency?)Private Infrastructure Damages?Agricultural Land Flooding?

Insufficient Drainage?

Natural Resources

?

Next Steps/COE Early Coordination Meeting

Additional Resources TeamSlide18

Problems - Details

Private Infrastructure DamagesAgricultural Land FloodingNatural ResourcesSlide19

Goal(s)

The DESIRED result the Green Meadow Project Team envisions, plans and commits to achieve.An articulated end-pointGoals:Project Team (Green Meadow Subwatershed

)

Watershed*

Basin*

Purpose and Need Statement

Additional Resources TeamSlide20

Red River Basin Goals

(jerry)RRBC Long Term Flood Solutions20% Flow Reduction Goal on the Mainstem Red River of the NorthWRWD Storage Allocation/District Storage Plan Overview

RRBC SlidesSlide21

Wild Rice Watershed Goals (Jerry/Kevin)

(Overall Plan)Water Quantity Goals (Section 5.1)To reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters.  (Goal-1)

To administer and maintain the drainage systems of the District in order to fulfill their original function.  (Goal-2)

Systems Approach Planning Process Goals (Water Quantity)

Provide protection of rural residences and buildings  to a minimum of 2-feet of freeboard over the flood of record, or 1-foot above the administrative 100-year flood, whichever is greater.  (Goal-8)

Provide community protection to a minimum of the flood of record plus uncertainty (3-feet), the 100-year flood plus uncertainty, or the 500-year flood, whichever is greatest.  (Goal-9)

Reduce flood damages to transportation and other public infrastructure.  (Goal-10)

Reduce flooding on the Red River of the North.  (

Goal-11

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Wild Rice Watershed Goals(Overall Plan)

WATER QUALITY GOALS (Section 5.2)Maintain or improve water quality of all surface water and groundwater resources within the District.  (Goal-12)Systems Approach Planning Process Goals (Water Quality)

Improve river and stream water quality to an index of Biotic Integrity corresponding to excellent condition (score 40-50).  (Goal-13)

Reduce erosion from land by implementing agricultural conservation practices on lands with erosion rates exceeding “tolerable”3 or with very high or high potential sediment yield.  (Goal-15)

Reduce sedimentation into waterways by implementing agricultural conservation practices on all lands with high potential sediment yield. (Goal-16)Slide23

Wild Rice Watershed Goals(Overall Plan)

NATURAL RESOURCES GOALS (Section 5.3)Improve the condition of natural resources on a district-wide basis compared to the present condition.  (Goal-24)Address the high-priority natural resource problems for each geomorphic region.  (Goal-25)Avoid and minimize adverse natural resource impacts to the extent possible for any specific strategy.  (Goal-26)Slide24

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Road Damages -Public Infrastructure - Upper Green Meadow DamPrivate Infrastructure -Agricultural Land FloodingNatural ResourcesAltered Hydrology -

Unstable Water Courses

–

Limited Amount of Upland Habitat

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Degraded

soil health

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Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Road Damages –To reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Reduce

flood damages to transportation and other public infrastructure.  (Goal-10)Slide26

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Public Infrastructure - Upper Green Meadow DamTo reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Provide community protection to a minimum of the flood of record plus uncertainty (3-feet), the 100-year flood plus uncertainty, or the 500-year flood, whichever is greatest.  (Goal-9)Slide27

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Private Infrastructure –To reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Provide protection of rural residences and buildings  to a minimum of 2-feet of freeboard over the flood of record, or 1-foot above the administrative 100-year flood, whichever is greater.  (Goal-8)Slide28

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Channel/Bank Erosion –To reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Reduce erosion from land by implementing agricultural conservation practices on lands with erosion rates exceeding “tolerable”3 or with very high or high potential sediment yield.  (Goal-15)

Reduce sedimentation into waterways by implementing agricultural conservation practices on all lands with high potential sediment yield. (Goal-16)Slide29

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Agricultural Land Flooding – To reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. To administer and maintain the drainage systems of the District in order to fulfill their original function. 

Reduce erosion from land by implementing agricultural conservation practices on lands with erosion rates exceeding “tolerable”3 or with very high or high potential sediment yield.  (Goal-15)

Reduce sedimentation into waterways by implementing agricultural conservation practices on all lands with high potential sediment yield. (Goal-16)Slide30

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Natural Resources - Altered HydrologyTo reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Improve river and stream water quality to an index of Biotic Integrity corresponding to excellent condition (score 40-50).  (Goal-13)

Reduce erosion from land by implementing agricultural conservation practices on lands with erosion rates exceeding “tolerable”3 or with very high or high potential sediment yield.  (Goal-15)

Reduce sedimentation into waterways by implementing agricultural conservation practices on all lands with high potential sediment yield. (Goal-16

)

To reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Maintain or improve water quality of all surface water and groundwater resources within the District.  (Goal-12

)Slide31

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Natural Resources – Unstable WatercoursesTo reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Improve river and stream water quality to an index of Biotic Integrity corresponding to excellent condition (score 40-50).  (Goal-13)

Reduce erosion from land by implementing agricultural conservation practices on lands with erosion rates exceeding “tolerable”3 or with very high or high potential sediment yield.  (Goal-15)

Reduce sedimentation into waterways by implementing agricultural conservation practices on all lands with high potential sediment yield. (Goal-16

)

To reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Maintain or improve water quality of all surface water and groundwater resources within the District.  (Goal-12

)Slide32

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Natural Resources – Limited Upland HabitatsTo reduce or alleviate the damage caused by floodwaters. Improve the condition of natural resources on a district-wide basis compared to the present condition.  (Goal-24) Avoid and minimize adverse natural resource impacts to the extent possible for any specific strategySlide33

Green Meadow Project Team Goal(s)

Natural Resources –Degraded soil healthReduce erosion from land by implementing agricultural conservation practices on lands with erosion rates exceeding “tolerable”3 or with very high or high potential sediment yield.  (Goal-15)

Reduce sedimentation into waterways by implementing agricultural conservation practices on all lands with high potential sediment yield. (Goal-16)Slide34

RANGE OF STRATEGIES/Alternatives (Henry)

(Technical Paper 11)Reduce Flood VolumeConstruction or Restoration of Depressional

Wetlands, Cropland BMPs, Conversion of Cropland to Perennial Grassland, Conversion of Land Use to Forest, Other Beneficial Uses of Stored Water

Increase Conveyance Capacity

Channelization, Agricultural Drainage, Diversions, Setting Back Existing Levees, Increasing Road Crossing Capacity

Increase Temporary Flood Storage

On Channel Impoundments, Off Channel Impoundments, Restored or Created Wetlands, Drainage, Culvert Sizing, Setting Back Existing Levees, Overtopping Levees

Protection / Avoidance

Urban Levees, Farmstead Levees, Agricultural Levees, Evacuation of the Floodplain,

Floodproofing

, Flood Warning and Emergency Response PlanningSlide35

TP 11 “FDR measures” and associated NRE opportunities

1) Reduce Flood Volumea) Restore or create wetlands (providing infiltration and evapotranspiration)b)

Use cropland BMPs (increase infiltration

and evapotranspiration

)

c) Convert cropland to prairie or other types of perennial grassland (e.g

., Conservation

Reserve Program (CRP) and Reinvest in Minnesota (

RIM) to

increase infiltration and evapotranspiration)

d) Convert land use to forest (forested areas generally have the lowest

runoff coefficients

, due to high interception and evapotranspiration)

e) Other beneficial uses of stored

runoff.

Associated NREs

Protect, restore, enhance existing habitats.

Improved hydrologic conditions for streams.Slide36

TP

11 “FDR measures” and associated NRE opportunities2) Increase Conveyance Capacitya) Channelization (increasing the flow capacity of existing channels or flowages)b) Drainage (creating new or improved conveyance capacity)

c) Diversions (of flood waters around a current damage area)

d) Setting back existing levees (to restore floodway capacity)

e) Increasing road crossing capacity

Associated NREs

Potential stream corridor restoration associated with setting back levees

P

otential water quality benefits for more stable drainage ditches and installation of side inletsSlide37

TP

11 “FDR measures” and associated NRE opportunities3) Increase Temporary Flood Storagea) Impoundments (with or without a normal pool, to detain water in excess of

downstream channel capacity)

b) Restored or created wetlands (functioning as impoundments)

c) Drainage (to lower surface water and groundwater levels, which increases

infiltration and temporary storage in the upper soil horizons)

d) Culvert sizing (to increase temporary storage by widespread metering of

runoff close

to its source)

e) Setting back existing levees (to restore floodplain storage areas)

f) Overtopping levees (to utilize diked floodplain storage capacity when critically

needed)Slide38

TP

11 “FDR measures” and associated NRE opportunities4) Protection/Avoidancea) Urban leveesb) Farmstead levees

c) Agricultural levees

d) Evacuation of the floodplain (removing people and flood-prone facilities

and converting

to more flood-compatible land uses)

e)

Floodproofing

f) Flood warning and emergency response planning

Associated NREs

Potential stream corridor restoration associated with floodplain evacuation.Slide39

Early, Middle, & Late Water

(jerry)Slide40

EARLY, MIDDLE, LATE WATER CONSIDERATIONS

(Handout)Slide41

Elimination of strategiesSlide42

Strategies/alternatives for consideration