Scenario-based Flood Risk Mapping – Tacoma Workshop
Overview
The purpose of this workshop is to evaluate the use of scenario-based flood risk mapping to better represent future conditions in a manner that they can effectively communicate potential future flood behavior, and allow users to determine tolerable levels of risk to infrastructure, within the context of a dynamic landscape. The outputs of this project will provide more realistic future risk assessments than are currently available.
The proposed workshop in Tacoma is designed to gather feedback and assess the usability of the preliminary flood scenario maps developed by our research team for Tacoma. In this workshop, we seek to analyze preferences on representation of future changes influencing flood risk mapping through from participants.
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Proposed Schedule (8:00am-12:30pm)
8:00- 8:45am Continental Workshop
8:45am- 9:00am Workshop Introduction
9:00am- 9:45am Introduction and discussion of future flood scenarios
9:45am-10:00am Coffee Break
10:00am-10:45am Discussion of various “cartographic” options depicting future change scenarios.
Each option would also be accompanied with general hazards impact estimates developed using HAZUS 4.0. This session will end with a short survey (using clickers) of the participants to the preferred “cartographic” option and the “flooding scenario” option for future flood risk mapping.
10:45am- 11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am- 11:45am Focus group sessions, tasked with developing policies for mitigating future flood risks.
11:45am- 12:30pm Wrap-up
12:30pm- 1:30pm Lunch