This document provides an overview of FloodSAFE, California's initiative to improve integrated flood management through a system-wide approach. Key points include: - FloodSAFE aims to reduce flood risks through regional projects, improving basic flood management, and developing a system-wide approach. - The initiative focuses on enhancement of sustainable resources, integration of multi-purpose projects, and safe communities for sustainable economic growth. - Achievements include critical levee repairs, sediment removal, floodplain mapping, and securing bond funding for projects. - Upcoming projects over the next two years include levee repairs, sediment removal, continuing work on the American River Common Features project, and additional early implementation projects.

1. FloodSAFE CaliforniaSAME 2009 California Water ConferenceOctober 28, 2009Mark CowinDeputy Director, California Department of Water Resources2

2. What is FloodSAFE?An initiative to improve integrated flood management in California through a system-wide approach while reducing flood risk at regional and local levels.

3. Improving Flood ManagementRegional Projects Designed to reduce flood risks through execution of United States Corps of Engineers (USACE) and other regional projects, including “Early Implementation Projects.” Improve Basic Flood Management Including emergency response, operation and maintenance of the flood control facilities, and management of the flood plains; fixing erosion sites and carrying out local projects.System Wide Approach Develop a system-wide approach where broad flood system evaluations are conducted, rather than project-by-project basis.4

4. System Wide ApproachBroad system evaluation Determine flood system deficiencies Define feasible projects/programs Fix deficiencies through comprehensive, integrated, system-wide Central Valley Flood Protection Plan4

5. System SustainabilityEnhancement of sustainable environmental resources, creation of open space, and protection of agricultural lands

6. Integration of multi-purpose projects & resources use

7. Safe communities for sustainable economic growth

8. Ease of operations and maintenance of flood facilities, with reasonable costs2

9. FloodSAFE InitiativeFunctional Areas

10. FloodSAFE Initiative Functional Areas /USACE National Flood Risk Management Program

11. USACE – DWR PartnershipCost SharedCentral Valley Integrated Flood Management PlanSacramento River Flood Control System EvaluationCapital Construction Projects:Folsom Dam ModificationsFolsom Dam RaiseAmerican River Common FeaturesSouth Sacramento StreamsMid-Valley Area Levee ReconstructionMarysville Ring LeveeCalFed Levee StabilitySacramento River Bank ProtectionGeneral Reevaluation Reports American River Common Features, West Sacramento, Yuba River BasinFeasibility Studies Sutter Basin, Lower San Joaquin River, Delta Islands & Levees, Lower Cache Creek, West Stanislaus Delta Long-Term Management StrategyMaintenance of California Debris Commission facilities 2

12. USACE – DWR PartnershipDWR-Funded Programs Levee Evaluations for the Central ValleyCentral Valley Floodplain Evaluation and DelineationCentral Valley Hydrology StudySacramento & San Joaquin River Basins Hydrology Study – Climate Change Impacts Interagency Flood Management Collaborative ProgramCooperating Agency Delta Emergency PlanSystem ReoperationCoordinated Reservoir Operation, Forecast-Based Reservoir OperationsEncroachment permitting Project Modification approvals Emergency Assistance Recovery Mechanism (PL 84-99)Levee Maintenance in the State Plan of Flood Control; Vegetation Management Round TableShared vision planning for the California Water Plan 2

13. AchievementsEmergency Response Deployment of rock material in the Delta

14. Levee inspection process and reporting modernization

15. Completed San Joaquin River system erosion survey and mapping Enhanced capability of Incident Command Teams

16. Web-cast weather/flood briefings to flood control agencies2

17. AchievementsOperations and Maintenance116 Critical levee repairs completed

18. 121 Proactive repairs completed

19. Removed 2.5 M cubic yards of sediment from Bypasses

20. Resurfaced 50 miles of levee crown roads