FDRWG Update Rita Albrecht | NW Region Director MN Department of Natural Resources
Flood Damage Reduction Work Group Update 4/2/2019 2
FDRWG Background Created by the Mediation Agreement in 1998 Collaborative approach to implementing flood damage reduction and natural resource protection and enhancement in the Red Rive Basin Co-chaired by MN DNR (Rita Albrecht) and RRWMB (Dan Money) 4/2/2019 3
FDRWG Background Annual Budget $264,000 legislative appropriation Membership includes representatives from state and federal agencies, watershed districts, citizens, landowners, agriculture, and conservation interests Updated FDRWG membership including naming Dan Money as FDRWG co- chair and updated TSAC membership 4/2/2019 4
FDRWG Background Committees •TSAC – Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee •Finance •Communications •Water Quality Monitoring (ad hoc) •Strategic Planning Subgroup 4/2/2019 5
FDRWG Background Project Team Support •Watershed project teams are working to develop projects in 8 districts. •Watershed Project teams reported $1,054,789 spent on project development in FY 18 and thus far in FY 19. •Exploring 23 individual projects 4/2/2019 6
Project Monitoring Develop a “story map” Conduct Rapid Floristic based reporting method to Implement a nutrient and Quality Assessments at the encompass all project sediment load monitoring Klondike project site in the monitoring efforts and aid in strategy Two Rivers Watershed writing EAs and EAWs, and District other permits Train 31 (professionals + Hold quarterly Red River volunteer) water quality Basin Monitoring Advisory staff that collect data at sites Committee meetings around the basin 4/2/2019 7
2018 Accomplishments Project Monitoring - $85,000 Project Team Support – Project Acceleration Funding water quality monitoring, $143,478 distributed to -$23,000 allocated to two training, and reporting and seven watershed districts watershed districts leveraged $85,000 matching funds from RRWMB 4/2/2019 8
2018 Accomplishments Work Group Meetings and Strategic Planning – Communication and Conference – $10,000 to Established a Strategic Outreach – Flyers, surveys, plan and co-hosted annual Planning Committee to etc. conference review FDRWG documents 4/2/2019 9
Strategic Planning Established a • Sub-committee has completed their review of the sub-committee Mediation Agreement to review the • Consensus that the Mediation Agreement remains a strong document Mediation • Recommendations to the FDRWG for some updates Agreement and to be added via an addendum • 20 years of progress in flood damage reduction Project Team • Enhanced awareness of NREs based on research Handbook 4/2/2019 10
Strategic Planning TSAC • TP #3 is being updated. reviewed • Identified papers needing updates, or addendums and summaries. technical • TSAC is discussing topics that could merit a papers for technical paper. • TSAC is preparing a report to FDRWG on needed updates needed and other topics that should be researched. updates 4/2/2019 11
Strategic Planning Still working on . . . . Review project team Seek a holistic view of process handbook and FDRWG work with Define what our work make recommendations stakeholders in the includes for updates Basin 4/2/2019 12
Let’s move on . . . THANK YOU!
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