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FLOOD MODEL: A VALUABLE TOOL TO ACCOMPLISH CRS AND STORM WATER OUTREACH PROGRAMS
Luz Locke, CFM Engineering Project Manager
Bianca Locke Armand Bayou Nature Center Educator, City of Pasadena MS4 and CRS Outreach
Coordinator, Environmental Engineer Student
Jill Trevino, P.E., CFMOutreach Committee, Freese and Nichols Stormwater Engineer
Larissa Knapp-Scott, CFMOutreach Committee, Jacobs Hydrologist
TFMA Spring ConferenceMay 29, 2014Irving, Texas
PART 1
MODEL BASICS AND TFMA RESOURCES
What is this model you speak of? WARD’s Stormwater Floodplain Simulation Model
Simulates several scenarios we deal with in floodplain management
Parking lot, retention pond, and wetland trays
Homes in floodplains
Levees
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CRS “Program for Public Information” (PPI)
Storm Water “Public Participation and Education Program” (PPE)
How can this help FP managers?
Schools
Science fairs
Science night
PTA meetings
Summer programs
Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts
Career day
Community events
Library events
Weather-related events
Health fairs
Job fairs
Business/industry meetings
Rotary Club
Round tables
Where can I use this model?
What all should I use? WARD’s Stormwater Floodplain
Simulation Model
One in Austin
One in Fort Worth
One in Pasadena
Requires Lease Agreement
Completion Certificates for participants
Request from Executive Office
Turn Around, Don’t Drown Calendars and Coloring Books
Request from Executive Office
Blank paper
Ask the kids to draw what they learned
Role delegation
Floodplain administrator, emergency management personnel, etc.
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Current Process
E-mail Executive Office requesting to use a model
EO will let you know availability
Provide signed Lease Agreement
Request fun supplementary materials from EO
We hope to have an online check out system in the future
How can I get a model?
PART 2
DEMONSTRATION
PART 3
CITY OF PASADENA SUCCESS STORY
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CRS “Program for Public Information” (PPI)
Storm Water “Public Participation and Education Program” (PPE)
What’s that about PPI and PPE?
Grabs and keeps kids’ attention
Explain concepts according to age (4 to 90) and education (elementary to PhD)
How has it been useful in outreach with kids?
Need for flood prevention, protection and mitigation
Where and how homes should be built
How to waterproof your home
Turn around, don’t drown
How to protect your important documents
How to put together an emergency kit
With the kids come the parents!
How has it been useful for outreach with adults?
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Impervious surfaces
Wetlands
Detention and retention ponds
Outfall
Storm water and sewer systems
Infrastructure
Rain gardens
Floodplain
Flood zones
Best management practices
Flood insurance purchase
Flood preparation
Buzzwords vary by age
Not scared of presenting since the material speaks for itself
They communicate the message with energy and enthusiasm
Speak basic language being understood by all ages
What worked well for Pasadena?Young people!
Opportunity to explain the PPI messages to the targeted audience
Received instant feedback on how the message was received
Display, flyers, PowerPoint and giveaways reinforce the lesson
What worked well for Pasadena?Being face to face!
Repetition of messages in different ways from different sources secure the delivery of the messages – PPI
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Annual event
Booth set up at entrance every year, but with different displays.
Model lures the kids to the booth while parents listen, watch, get the written information and ask questions
In 2014, three tables were set up (in this order):
Flood model
Giveaways
Informational display and one on one information
What worked well for Pasadena?Hurricane Workshop
2014
2013
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Same event. Same spot.
Every year.
It doesn’t get old.
It is a sustainable tool.
2012
Easy to communicate to your audience
Reaches any age, background, education, language
Dynamics of the model attract and invite to use the imagination
Goes to the point; a model doesn’t need many words
States cause and effect
Message is communicated using visual and audio
Opportunity to explain several concepts and communicate several messages in a short period of time
Anybody can use it, therefore there is opportunity to invite stakeholders to help in outreach
Can be used indoors and outdoors
Use for short and long lessons in events and classrooms
Advantages of using the model
Do you want to help your parents to be ready for a flood or hurricane?
Do you think you are going to be scared if a flood happens?
What happens if your house is close to the bayou, there is a lot of rain and the water overflows?
What if you are ready for a flood, would you be scared?
Do you have an emergency kit ready at home?
Observe the water, where is it going?
Why is it so important to take care of the environment?
Do you like to go fishing, swimming, playing on the sand in Galveston Bay?
How do you keep clean the water in Galveston Bay?
What is a watershed?
What watershed do you live in?
How many watersheds are in Pasadena?
Questions for younger kids
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Do you know what these are? Watershed, detention/retention pond, wetland, runoff, etc.
Do you drive? Have you heard the campaign Turn Around, Don’t Drown? Did you know that flood insurance is different from the home insurance
because… Do you know what an impervious surface is? What are you going to study after high school? As an engineer, architect, environmentalist or flood plain manager, where
would you advise to build a home? How can you make the parking lot storm water friendly?
What do you think of rain gardens? Did you know that storm water is not purified in a treatment plant? What are the consequences of littering at the park, street or bayou? What watershed do you live in? What happens when the same amount of water that rains in four hours rains
in just 30 minutes? Did you know that what you are studying at school will be used to understand
water flow, capacity, precipitation, etc?
Questions for older kids
Where do you live (offer information services) address, side of town, city?
What floodplain do you live in?
Are you ready for a flood?
Do you have flood Insurance?
Has your home ever flooded?
Do you own or rent?
Does your street flood?
Do you know the consequences of not having flood insurance?
Have you contacted the City’s Action Line or Engineer Department?
What type of floods can happen in our City?
Questions for adults
Geometry, area, volume, flow, capacity, pressure, force, etc. can be explained with the help of this tool.
Classrooms and eventsDuring events, the model can be used for short lessons, but in a classroom setting, the lesson can be more elaborate
Adam Rodriguez, P.E., CFM Project Engineer from IDS Engineering Group. His company works with a local middle school.
Lane Lease, P.E., CFM Project Manager from Dodson | A Walter P Moore Company and ASCE member, Becky Luman. They put on an “Expanding Your Horizon Science and Mathematics” conference on February 22 to inspire middle-school girls to enjoy and excel in STEM subjects and become civil engineers.
City of Pasadena uses this tool during career days at different schools from elementary to high school. The flood model motivates our children today to be the Environmentalists and Floodplain Managers of tomorrow.
The Pasadena model has been borrowed by:
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Partnering with teachers in a classroom setting, the lesson can be more elaborate
Career Days and Health Fairs are perfect schools events to use this model, outreaching to our future professionals
Summer camps in partnership with Parks and
Recreation Department
After the presentation, the kids sat to color one page of
TexAnna’s book and answered questions on what
was just explained. This kids knew it all!
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During the Hurricane Workshop in Pasadena, kids of all ages are attracted to the model while we talk to the parents. Note the
stickers on the shirt of the kids (and the grandmother’s too!)
The messages are explained in Spanish or English, or both simultaneously
When using the model, kids can understand the importance of the messages
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Great moment: a parent repeats what was said to her child. She wants to make sure her daughter learns the lesson. In the background, the kid didn’t have a doubt… she went for the
model.
Dad explained to his child about not littering in streets and bayous…
Then his daughter elaborated for a long time on how to escape when flooding…
Look in the background, the little girl in pink is getting tired of waiting but doesn’t give up. She wants to see the model!
The kids are enjoying the model.
Dad wants to show them how the water floods homes and
takes some of them as well as a tree in its path.
The young girls look worried now…
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Looks like dad enjoyed the model too and delivered the message with enthusiasm.
These young scouts didn’t want to leave the model at the end of the lesson. Their troop leaders continued to the next table and the kids didn’t even notice. The girl on the left wanted her turn too…
but these young men had lots of questions
At the library during summer camps, kids learn with the Flood Model and TexAnna’s Story Book
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Counties, Weather Service, City Police and Fire Departments, insurance, businesses, industries, etc. are at some of the events
supporting the environment and the community
Presenting to professionals: give them ideas for their own CRS or Storm Water outreach programs
Questions?
The Flood Model is an effective and valuable tool to accomplish the CRS and Storm Water Outreach Programs in the City of
Pasadena, Texas
PasadenaLuz Locke: [email protected]
Bianca Locke: [email protected]
TFMAJill Trevino: [email protected]
Larissa Knapp-Scott: [email protected]