Weather-Ready Sandhills

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1 Weather-Ready Sandhills Sustainable Resource Management for Resilient Communities Alba Polonkey, Sustainability Manager (910)

2 Outline I. Overview of planning process II. Local Risks and Priority Impacts III. Recommended Action Plan IV. What s Next? 2

3 Planning team and risk analysis OVERVIEW OF PLANNING PROCESS 3

4 Planning Team Sustainable Sandhills City of Fayetteville Cape Fear River Assembly PWC Fort Bragg DPW 4

5 Agile Planning Process and Risk Analysis Existing baseline conditions Data Gathering & Literature Review Ecosystem Services Assessment Tool Natural processes and benefits Data Synthesis Climate Risk Matrix CSU & planning team input Likelihood, severity and adaptability 5

6 Existing concerns and future snapshots LOCAL RISKS AND PRIORITY IMPACTS 6

7 Heat-Related Concerns Development Practices Water Public Health and Safety Infrastructure Agriculture and Forestry Urban tree canopy Urban sprawl Building standards Land Use Development pressures Aging farmer population Resource/tool gap between landowners 7

8 Priority Impacts Decreasing water quality and increasing demand. Water Public Health and Safety Infrastructure Agriculture and Forestry Urban Heat Island Effect Increasing energy demand Reduced available prescribed burn days Vulnerable populations: Outdoor rural workers, existing medical conditions, children and elderly, military & low-income. 8

9 Severe Weather Concerns Vulnerable Populations Infrastructure Public Health and Safety Agriculture and Forestry Mobile home dwellers Single or deployed spouse Low-income and/or renters Health compromised Limited English speaking Built Infrastructure Critical infrastructure capacity Natural buffers/land use Building codes 9

10 Priority Impacts Fayetteville Public Buildings and Critical Facilities Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessment from 2011 Increasing Potential for service interruptions Infrastructure Public Health and Safety Agriculture and Forestry Critical infrastructure damage Exposure of vulnerable populations Damage to crops, livestock and trees 10

11 Flooding Concerns Urban Stormwater Management Public Health and Safety Infrastructure Agriculture Impervious surface cover - quantity Quality of stormwater Rural Stormwater Management Agriculture runoff Cross contaminated drinking water Private water wells 11

12 Priority Impacts Fayetteville Public Buildings and Critical Facilities Flood Vulnerability Assessment from 2011 Rural residents with private water wells Public Health and Safety Infrastructure Agriculture Agriculture runoff and crosscontamination Urban flooding and stormwater Crop sensitivity 12

13 Drought Concerns Long-Term Water Management Water Agriculture and Forestry Current supply / demand estimations Natural and climate migration Development Practices Water efficiency standards Landscaping 13

14 Priority Impacts Water Agriculture and Forestry Increasing water demand Climate and non-climate related Summer peaking Decreasing water quality Influx of polluted stormwater Concentrated contaminants Increased wildfire potential 14

15 Recommended adaptation and mitigation actions STRATEGIC ADAPTATION PLAN 15

16 1) Integrate Climate Resilience into All Planning and Natural Area Conservation Efforts Collaborate Establish specific with NC goals Cooperative for green Extension, infrastructure and and Agriculture green space and development Forestry Adaptation and conservation Working and Update carry out Emergency projects towards Management those goals, Hazard Group to provide more local support and such Mitigation as green open Plans encouragement spaces, to include of forest parks, climate preservation trails, projections. and nature and farmland conservation preserves. measures. 16

17 2) Protect Future Water Quality and Quantity Develop Implement Use natural regional stakeholder-based systems, water more use plan open local for space strategies Cape and Fear green River that increase that surfaces includes water to manage climate efficiency stormwater projections and conservation and and allow their practices expected to impacts it save to drain money into water and the quantity energy ground. during and quality, peak including demand increased periods. water demand. 17

18 3) Provide Assistance and Support for Vulnerable Populations Provide financial assistance for low-income Collaborate with organizations, like NC residents to help with power bills, energy Cooperative Improve access Extension, to reliable to provide and convenient financial upgrades to homes, and support services during assistance for farmers emergency to use shelters. sustainable farming extended periods of high temperature and other practices. extreme weather. 18

19 4) Shift Development Patterns to Sustainable Community Design, Green Buildings, and Renewable Energy Supply Provide Analyze financial and update assistance building to reduce codes energy and Increase funding to improve, repair and demand, ordinances such to make affordable buildings renewable safer from energy wind maintain infrastructure that meets climate and sources, flooding, and more retrofits energy for older and water buildings efficient, projections, including roads, bridges and other for more tolerant energy to and heat water waves, efficiency. and healthier to critical structures. live in. 19

20 5) Establish and Maintain a Monitoring, Evaluation and Adaptive Management Process Create and carry out a short-term action Develop Create a specific coordinating monitoring committee or results to meet tracking workplan on an ongoing, periodic basis that quarterly, plan to define assess and progress measure of results, county resiliency progress outlines specific actions, timelines, responsible plan, indicators, report and out successes on progress, for and actions update detailed plan in as person(s), funding sources in hand or needed, progress is made workplan. and priorities evolve. deliverables and anticipated outcomes. 20

21 Taking action WHAT S NEXT? 21

22 Climate Solutions Implementation Project Main Objectives: 1. Raise awareness 2. Gain public input 3. Summarize public concerns for decision makers 4. Integrate resiliency measures into City of Fayetteville Comprehensive Plans 22

23 Opportunities to Get Involved Projects under way Weather-Ready Sandhills CCS Carbon Tree Bank Cumberland/Hoke Hazard Mitigation Plan 2017 Sandhills Clean Energy Summit Take action Join review committee Inform and support shortterm workplan Help facilitate grant or partnership opportunities Schedule this presentation at your next meeting! 23

24 Alba Polonkey (910) Cape Fear River Assembly 24