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Q/A: What are the risks of a major earthquake in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta? In the first of two Delta Conveyance Deep Dive episodes on seismic risks in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Laurence Sanati, head of the DWR Flood Systems Analysis Section, speaks about the potential consequences of a major earthquake in or near the Delta and the measures currently in place to deal with such an event.
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Monitoring Stations in the Feather River Watershed Inform Statewide Water Supply Every year, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) relies on data from monitoring stations strategically located across California to provide information that will aid the decision-making process regarding the flood control and water supply operations of California’s State Water Project (SWP).
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State Develops Tool and Recommendations to Support Those Most Vulnerable to Drought With drought conditions returning to California, DWR has finalized a tool and recommendations to support those communities most at risk during drought.
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Castaic Dam Modernization Efforts Move Forward Two key projects are set to begin as part of ongoing modernization work at Castaic Dam in Los Angeles County to reduce risks from a major earthquake. DWR will oversee the installation of new equipment to monitor the dam’s stability and work to strengthen the dam’s intake tower access bridge.
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Nevada
Nevada Outreach:
The Nevada Floodplain Management Program continues to work on virtual outreach campaigns. This includes the recently completed project with Sierra Nevada Journeys in which middle school curriculum was developed to go along with the Flood Fighter Nevada computer game. The lessons will be piloted this fall in Washoe County schools. The program plans release requests for proposals for several more outreach strengthening projects including curriculum to go along with all Nevada major river Story Maps, a nevadafloods. org website update, and a physical flood model revamp. It is expected that in person outreach will begin to resume this fall and preparations will be made to prepare for that.
Training:
The Nevada Floodplain Management Program will host several a virtual trainings with Starr II in the next three months, thanks to the support of Region IX. The topics will include NFIP Basics, Permitting and Inspecting Floodplain Development, How to Review a No-Rise Analysis, Determining BFE-MSC-LOMAS, Elevation Certificate Basics, How to Review an Elevation Certificate, and Preparing for a CAV. Official training dates will be released soon.
The program is assisting with planning Dam Safety Webinars in collaboration with Nevada Dam Safety and Silver Jackets. The kick-off to this series was held via Webex on Wednesday April 21st. This webinar covered Nevada Dam Emergency Action Plans 101 from how to create one to how to exercise it. There will a series of webinars that will discuss different aspects of Dam Safety and Nevada specifics. The webinars will lead up to a final Emergency Action Plan Tabletop Exercise, hopefully during Nevada Flood Awareness Week.
