Responding to Climate Change with Multi-Benefit Projects
Climate change is creating new challenges to flood protection and water management. An emerging strategy from the Department of Water Resources is Flood-MAR:
...an integrated and voluntary resource management strategy that uses flood water from rainfall or snow melt for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) on agricultural lands and working landscapes, including refuges, floodplains, and flood bypasses. Flood-MAR can be implemented at multiple scales, from individual landowners diverting flood water with existing infrastructure, to using extensive detention/recharge areas and modernizing flood management infrastructure and operations.
The Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency and the Cosumnes Coalition are collaborating with stakeholders and researchers to explore a FloodMAR multi-benefit project that would increase regional flood protection while benefitting water supply and Cosumnes River ecosystems.
Topic: Responding to Climate Change with Multi-Benefit Projects
Speakers: Melinda Frost-Hurzel, P.E., coordinator, Cosumnes Coalition and Gary Bardini, planning
director, Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency
When: Friday, March 8, 2019, 12 p.m.–1 p.m.
Where: University Library, 2000 State University Drive, Library 11
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About the Speakers
Melinda Frost-Hurzel is the coordinator of the
Cosumnes Coalition, a group that includes Trout Unlimited, American River Conservancy, Cosumnes Culture and
WaterWays, Fishery Foundation, and Landmark Environmental Consultants. The Cosumnes Coalition (http://www.cosumnescoalition.org/)
works
collaboratively with communities, agencies, and partners to create win/win solutions that preserve the unique
values of the Cosumnes Watershed. Melinda is also the monitoring coordinator for the ARC Cosumnes River Water
Quality Monitoring Program.
Gary Bardini, director of planning for the Sacramento Flood Control Agency (http://www.safca.org/) since September 2017, has
more than 30
years of public service with the State of California. His experience includes providing strategic planning, policy
development, and engineering services to promote integrated and sustainable management of the state's water
resources. At SAFCA, Gary directs the formulation, coordination, and policy administration for strategic and
project-level planning initiatives. Prior to working for SACFA, he served as the deputy director of Integrated
Water Management for the California Department of Water Resources from 2011 to 2017. A graduate of California
Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Bardini received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil
engineering.
