September 8-10, 2010

Skamania Lodge

Stevenson, WA

Conference Program

September 8

RFC Operations and Flood Season Forecast
(Steve King, NW River Forecast Center)

FEMA Region X Update - BiOP issues for both Washington & Oregon

Risk Map Updates
(Nick Delmedico, Brett Holt, Mark Eberlein, Karen Wood-McGuiness)

State Coordinators Update / Panel Discussion Q&A
(Dan Sokol (WA), Mary McGown (ID), Christine Shirley (OR), Taunnie Boothby (AK)

Beyond the Puget Sound BiOP: Fixing Floodplain Management Problems
(Dan Siemann, National Wildlife Federation)

Keynote: Bob Sallinger, Portland Audubon

Pending Changes to the 2012 CRS Manual
(French Wetmore, French & Associates)

Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project
(Bob Montgomery)

British Columbia Floodplain Management Experience
(Monica Mannerstrom, NHC)

Flood Management in BC/Integrated Flood Management on Vancouver Island
( Tamsin Lyle, NHC)

Idaho DWR-IDWR ArcGIS Mapping Application
(Barbara McEvoy & Zach Mailard, Idaho DWR)

Responding to Unacceptable Levee Ratings - The Dallas Experience
(Rob Vining, HNTB )

RiverRAT, Web-based River Restoration Analysis Tool
(Janine Castro, USFWS)

Tillamook Oregon Solutions
(Vaughn Collins, NHC)

Cooling Tank Failure Inundation Study
(Stephen Blanton, P.E., CFM, Michael Rounds, P.E., and Kevin G. Coulton, P.E., CFM)

An Estimate of the U.S. Population Living in Coastal Flood Hazard Areas
( Kevin G. Coulton, P.E., CFM, AECOM)

Nile Landslide Event in Yakima County
Informal discussion
(Joel Freudental, Yakima County)

September 9

Elevation Certificates: Avoiding Errors & Expensive Flood Insurance
(Dennis Dixon, Pierce County)

Elwha Dam Removal
(Travis Ball, USACE )

Incorporating hardened vegetated buffers along Puyallup River, WA levees
(Tim Abbe, ENTRIX )

Dam Breach Model of Historic Glacial Lake Missoula Floods
Map (Christopher Goodell, WEST Consultants)

Dike Breach and Floodplain Inundation Modeling in BC
(David Matsubara, Kerr Wood Leidal Assoc.)

FEMA Levee Certification Challenges for existing Flood Control Facilities
(Mark StanleyPE, GE, Kleinfelder)

Chehalis River Flood Authority Update-People, Politics, and Projects
(Bruce Mackey, ESA Adolfson)

Preparing for Trouble: Flood Warning Systems in Washington State
(Emily Y. Spahn, WEST Consultants, Inc. )

Regional Collaboration of Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest

Columbia River Treaty
(Jim Barton, USACE and Jeff Blank, HDR)

The Green River: Being Forced to look at Risk Differently
(Bob Freitag, UW)

Web Soil Survey
(Brad Duncan, NRCS Washington State)

Integration of Stormwater/Floodplain Management Activities
(Marjorie Wolfe, ESA Adolfson)

Conservation Banking for Salmon
(Sky Miller, P.E., Wildlands, Inc )

Statewide Levee Inventory
(Jonah Stinson, Western WA U)

September 10