Washington County Disaster Debris Plan Overview

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1 Washington County Disaster Debris Plan Overview Thomas Egleston Senior Program Coordinator Solid Waste & Recycling Program Chris Walsh Emergency Management Coordinator Department of Land Use and Transportation Solid Waste Advisory Committee, January 14, 2016

2 Overview Plan development Plan scope Debris generating events Types of debris Response Recovery Organizational structure Federal assistance Summary

3 Plan development Planning began in early 2014 plan currently remains in draft form Plan is an annex to the County Emergency Operations Plan Jointly developed by Emergency Management and Solid Waste & Recycling Program Developed to be Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) compliant with strong focus on federal guidance

4 Plan scope Plan directs debris management activities in unincorporated Washington County o Plan does include mechanisms for joining operations with regional partners Structured around 10 federally recognized debris types (closely align with local types) Response and recovery phases Scalable small wind storm to large federally declared disaster.

5 Threat assessment Local windstorm Ice storm Severity Portland Hills Fault earthquake Regional windstorm Floods Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake

6 Debris types Federal guidance categorizes disaster-generated debris into 10 types: o This may differ from normal operating debris types in Washington County Vegetative Construction and demolition Hazardous and other special waste White goods Soil, sand and mud Vehicles and vessels Putrescent debris Infectious waste Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclearcontaminated Garbage

7 Federally declared disaster Severe enough impacts will result in a federally declared disaster (major disaster declaration) if: o Statewide uninsured losses of $5,325,193 or $1.39 per capita (2010) o Washington County uninsured losses of $1,852,095 or $3.50 per capita Triggers the FEMA Public Assistance (PA) Program Category A: debris removal (most cost) Category B: emergency protective measures (demolition) FEMA reimburses 75/25 75 percent federal cost share and 25 percent local cost share Can be 80/20, 90/10 or even 100/0 in extreme circumstances

8 Federally declared disaster Eligible PA applicants: o Washington County o Incorporated cities (any political subdivision) o Special districts o Some private non-profits (education, utilities, emergency, medical, custodial care and essential government services) Eligible facilities: o Located in disaster declared area (Washington County) o The legal responsibility of an eligible applicant o Public improved property o Example: roads, bridges, schools, infrastructure (gas, water, etc.), hospitals, shelters, zoos, libraries, museums, parks

9 EVENT HAPPENS WIND STORM EARTHQUAKE FLOOD ICE STORM

10 Response Life safety

11 Response clear roadways Jurisdictions are legally responsible managing debris response efforts within their boundaries Washington County is responsible for unincorporated areas o Washington County responsible for clearing debris from 1,300 miles of roads and nearly 200 bridges o Debris cleared from the public right-of-way Incorporated cities are responsible for managing debris within city limits

12 Response clear roadways The strategic approach: Priority 1: clear roads for life safety operations Priority 2: clear roads for crews repairing critical infrastructure Priority 3: access to facilities where mission-essential services are performed Priority 4: allow the resumption of household garbage service to mitigate public heath hazards Why? Response resources (equipment) can be outnumbered by areas where debris exists on roads Seek additional resources through mutual aid, County Emergency Operations Center (EOC), State, federal partners or combination

13 Response clear roadways The tactical approach: 1. Make available one lane of traversable road service 2. Make available two lanes for two-way traffic 3. Clear debris from the public right-of-way

14 Recovery Return to normalcy

15 Recovery debris removal, reduction and disposal Debris, not within the limits of a city, on the public rights-of-way and public improved property is the responsibility of the County Debris recovery mission: collect disaster-generated debris from impact sites and transfer to temporary or final disposal locations Debris management goals: o Eliminate threats to public health and property o Support community and economic recovery o Minimize debris operational costs o Reuse, recycle, compost, energy recovery and disposal

16 Recovery debris removal, reduction and disposal Public right-of-way mixed debris collection

17 Recovery debris removal, reduction and disposal First priority is to take debris to existing facilities When the debris management infrastructure is incapacitated or overwhelmed, debris will be taken to a County-operated temporary debris storage and reduction site Purposes: o Temporarily store debris o Sort mixed debris o Capture recyclable material o Reduce through chipping, grinding, incineration, etc. o Temporarily hold for sale or pickup

18 Recovery debris removal, reduction and disposal Temporary debris storage and reduction site

19 Organizational structure Cities and County activate EOCs and Disaster Operation Centers (DOC) o Operations Section, Public Works Branch, Debris Management Group Office of Emergency Management (OEM) will activate EOC with relevant emergency support functions (ESF) o ESF #3 public works and engineering Dept. Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Oregon Dept. of Transportation (ODOT) o ESF #8 public health and medical services Dept. of Agriculture and Oregon Health Authority o ESF #10 oil and hazardous materials DEQ o ESF #14 long-term community recovery OEM FEMA activate a Regional Response Coordination Center uses ESF structure: ESF#3, ESF#8, ESF#10, SF#14)

20 Organizational structure Because there will be multiple jurisdictions in Washington County (or the region) managing debris operations, a joint coordination and management structure is desired: Washington County Debris Management Task Force (DMTF) Provides the ability to jointly manage debris operations and share common resources and contractors Would include all organizations that are PA applicants Would include representatives from contracted organizations Would include representatives from State and Federal US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) organizations May become stakeholder in larger regional group

21 Organizational structure Large-scale events will quickly overwhelm local government ability to recover from the event County will seek additional resources through mutual-aid intergovernmental agreements: o Cooperative Public Agencies of Washing County (CPAWC) o Managing Oregon Resources Efficiently o ODOT o Contracted o Resource request by County EOC to OEM o OEM to other states and FEMA and USACE

22 Request for federal assistance Three types of federal assistance ODOT must be requested by the State of Oregon on behalf of the County: Technical assistance the USACE provides technical assistance to local governments Federal operations support FEMA mission assigns USACE to provide oversight of certain aspects of debris missions at normal cost sharing Direct federal assistance mission assignment to USACE at 100 percent federal cost-share includes full control of all debris missions and activities

23 Request for federal assistance For direct federal assistance (Cascadia): FEMA and OEM establishes a Joint Field Office (JFO) and manages debris operations with ESF#3 public works and engineering USACE establishes a Recovery Field Office USACE establishes Emergency Field Offices Local EOCs and DOCs close and transition operations to the JFO USACE and FEMA take full control of management local government must forego all authority

24 Escalation of assistance Federal declaration Direct federal assistance Local windstorm Local resources Ice storm Portland Hills Fault earthquake Federal resources Regional windstorm Floods Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake

25 Summary of plan Debris is managed at the lowest jurisdictional level possible Seeks to use the existing solid waste infrastructure Scales operations to address impacts to the solid waste infrastructure with government-managed operations Seeks to minimize material disposition into landfills Contains legal references for all aspects of debris operations Outlines local, state, and federal response and recovery operations, roles and responsibilities including federally declared disasters Provides a regional coordination framework for recovery operations DMTF

26 Questions? Thomas Egleston Chris Walsh