No Rise, No Problem! Managing Infrastructure in the Floodway
This event qualifies for 1 CEC for CFMs
The Association of State Floodplain Managers invites local floodplain administrators, flood development permitting professionals, and other interested practitioners to our upcoming webinar, “No Rise, No Problem! Managing Infrastructure in the Floodway" on October 12 at 11:00am-12:30pm Central Time.
Does the phrase "no-rise" make you sweat? Have you ever planned a project across a floodway and felt the early pains of despair? Are you a professional working in public infrastructure or floodplain management? If these describe you, then this is the webinar for you.
Human infrastructure and natural hazards share the same space in our built environment. Balancing fiscal limitations with social evolution in a natural environment is an impossible task without a full toolkit of options and opportunities. This webinar will help design, construction, data management, and public compliance professionals develop new tools for
that toolkit. This event will showcase 11 years of evolution derived from local pavement management practices, vetted with state and federal partners, and applied on the ground as new standard operating procedures in the Colorado Department of Transportation.
We’ll showcase the successes of a partnership between Federal Highway Administration, Colorado Department of Transportation, FEMA Region VIII, and other state partners. The webinar will provide a brief overview of floodways and no-rise certification requirements, then show a 6-step progression to help professionals understand how efforts can be
streamlined to create successful projects that accommodate flood risks with analytical tools and field practices. Our goal is to share these evolving methods, refine them with feedback, and create new ways of managing flood risk across the nation. Join us and help move the needle on best practices in engineering and floodplain management!
Objectives:
- Identify critical areas of allowable rise floodways
- Streamline processes for certifying no-rise in base flood elevations
- Provide alternative options to FEMA Letters of Map Change
- Leverage technological solutions to regulatory challenges
- Identify multi-agency partnering opportunities
Intended Audience: Floodplain management professionals working in the floodway, infrastructure design and pavement management professionals, surveyors, engineers and architects certifying no-rise, and local officials responsible for certification review and approval.
All registered attendees will receive an electronic recording of the webinar, copies of the slides, and links to various free resources available.
ASFPM webinars are intended to aid floodplain administrators in their daily jobs, and provide tools to help protect the public against flood risk.
Speaker and Presenter Information
Brian Varrella, PE, CFM
Hydraulics Team Lead, Colorado Dept. Transportation
Brian Varrella is the ASFPM Vice Chair and is a past chair and current board member of the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers. Brian works for the Colorado Dept. Transportation as their Hydraulics Team Lead. His professional experience is equally balanced between private consulting and public sector service, including serving as Floodplain Administrator to the City of Fort Collins, CO for 7 years. He has enjoyed a wide variety of responsibility from assisting with development of statewide floodplain regulations to teaching 3-day technical courses under the Federal Highway Administration. He has worked in 19 states in his career and considers himself fortunate to be part of ASFPM’s mission to promote policies and activities that reduce human suffering from flooding. A passion for flood risk management stems from Brian’s personal experiences; he has survived and thrived after damage from 3
flood events in 2 states, though he has never lived in a Special Flood Hazard Area. He spends his free time in the Rocky Mountains wading streams and rivers flyfishing, and riding frozen rivers of water on the ski slopes.
Relevant Government Agencies
Dept of Transportation, Other Federal Agencies, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, FEMA, Federal Government, State & Local Government
Event Type
Webcast
This event has no exhibitor/sponsor opportunities
When
Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 11:00am - 12:30pm
CT
Cost
| ASFPM Member Rate: | $40.00 |
| ASFPM Agency/Corporate/Chapter Partner Rate: | $55.00 |
| Non-Member Rate: | $70.00 |
Website
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Organizer
ASFPM
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