Subcommittee Resources

The following resources have been identified by the Floodplain Management Subcommittee to support their consideration of various recommendations.

Final WRCC Floodplain Management Recommendations

On Nov. 6, 2009, the Water Resources Coordinating Council approved sixteen policy recommendations and nine funding options to be submitted to the Governor and General Assembly as required by HF756.

• Final Recommendations (full 86-page document)
• Recommendations (pp 1-7)
• Exhibit A: 48 Original Draft Recommendations as of 9/29/09 (pp 8-26)
• Exhibit B: Public Input and Analysis (pp 27-51)
• Exhibit C: Detailed Background, Work Group Recommendations (pp 52-86)

For additional information, please contact:

• Jamie Cashman, Office of the Governor, Chair of the Water Resources Coordinating Council
  515-281-0130, Jamie.cashman@iowa.gov
• Bill Ehm, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, WRCC Subcommittee Co-Chair
  515-281-4701, william.ehm@dnr.iowa.gov
• Chuck Gipp, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, WRCC Subcommittee Co-Chair
  515-281-5163, chuck.gipp@iowaagriculture.gov

Meeting Materials (Distributed or Discussed)

11/06/2009

• Final Subcommittee Recommendations to the WRCC

9/18/2009

• Click here to view the WRCC Recommendations Summary (DRAFT)

8/20/2009

• Presentation to Work Group #3 - Power Point from Witold Krajewsky, Iowa Flood Center: River Network Based Analysis of Factors Contributing to Potential for Flooding in Palo, IA
• Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 3rd Quarter 2000, “Flood and Water Quality Management Through Targeted, Temporary Restoration of Landscape Functions: Paying Upland Farmers to Control Runoff” by A. Manale.

7/13/2009

• RIAC Recommendation Excerpts
• HF 756 with highlighted WRCC recommendation requirements
• Leopold Center - Lessons Learned from the Floods of 2008
• 2003 Iowa Water Summit
• 2007 Watershed Quality Planning Task Force
• DNR 2/2009 Floodplain Issues
• RIO Proposal on Smart Planning - DRAFT

Additional Information

• WRCC Recommendation Template
• Pre-2008 Floodplain Management Recommendation Compilation
• Regional Watershed Boundaries
• Iowa Code Chapter 466B, Surface Water Protection Act
• 6/1994 Report of Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee (U.S.)
• 3/10/09 Presentation by Dr. Gerald Galloway (U of MD) to 2009 Water Conference, ISU: “Learning from the 1993 Flood: Lost Recommendations, Politics, and the Future”
• Iowa Flood Center, University of Iowa
• Iowa Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Iowa Stormwater Management Manual
• 2001 Watershed Task Force Report (Iowa)
• DRAFT - 2009 Executive Order on Floodplains Management (Obama Administration – not yet signed)
• No Adverse Impact: A New Direction in Floodplain Management Policy – Natural Hazards Review 2001
• Power Point: Targeting Conservation Practices in Rural and Urban Watersheds (Pete Nowak, U of Wisconsin)
• Power Point: Living an Ethic of Conservation (Paul Lasley, Sociology Department, ISU)
• Power Point: Iowa Soil and Water Resources Vision (Rick Cruse, Iowa Water Center, ISU)
• Power Point: Agricultural Runoff Past, Present Future (Matt Helmers, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, ISU)
• Army Corps of Engineers, Upper Mississippi Floodplain Control (See Final Report)
• Risk and Uncertainty - Calculating the Risk of 100-Year Floods (Jack Riessen, Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources)
• Stormwater Treatment with Vegetated Buffers (Texas Transportation Institute, Sept. 2009)