Climate Change & Infrastructure Resilience

Long Term Outcome:

Comprehensive evaluation of likely climate change impacts to the region.

Description	Deliverable	Timeframe
Assemble Climate Change and Infrastructure Working Group	Engagement of partners in model development, assembly of existing data (infrastructure and base sea level and flood zones) for trends and futures analysis	July, 2011
Obtain LIDAR and improved flood hazard data for Washington County coastline and inland areas of both counties	Data sets and GIS coverages obtained and in use for study area	Sept, 2011
obtain Community Viz software; orient GIS students to overall project	runs of local (Community Viz) models in coastal communities available for review and analysis	June, 2011
outreach to coastal communities on sea level rise modeling and flood hazard modeling	anticipated impacts of sea level rise including mapping, infrastructure impacts and hazard mitigation responses	Jan-Dec 2013
regional models under development by GIS staff and advanced GIS students for inland flood impacts	regional models for use in scenario planning	Jan-Dec 2013
Development of infrastructure impact analysis based on model output including implications of moving, replacing or renovating infrastructure	regional models for use in scenario planning	Jan-Dec 2013