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WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION Climate Adaptation Goals DAM SAFETY AND RESILIENCE DAM SAFETY AND RESILIENCE Ensure dams are safe and resilient for all Maryland citizens EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS PREPAREDNESS Ensure water programs are prepared and responsive, protect public health, vulnerable populations, and the environment from extreme events FLOOD PROTECTION AND FLOOD PROTECTION AND POLLUTION PREVENTION POLLUTION PREVENTION Increase flood resilience, prevent pollution, and reduce vulnerabilities from larger, more frequent and more intense storms Maryland Department of the Environment DAM SAFETY DAM SAFETY Facts & Key Strategies Facts & Key Strategies Facts to Know Facts to Know 627 Dams (>15,000 small ponds) Dam Hazard Classification High 16.8% Low 58.9% Significant 24.3% High Hazard Dams Inspected 87% Emergency Action Plan Compliance 77% Science & Engineering Science & Engineering Design Gaps Design Gaps Reevaluate Maryland's Probable Reevaluate Maryland's Probable Maximum Precipitation Maximum Precipitation mall pond integrity studies Perform small pond integrity studies Perform s from short high-intensity storms from short high-intensity storms pillway criteria and earthen Reassess spillway criteria and earthen Reassess s spillways spillways ethods for evaluating dam Establish methods for evaluating dam Establish m removal impacts removal impacts Dam Inspections and Dam Inspections and Inventory Inventory Emergency Dam Emergency Dam Repair and Removal Repair and Removal Ensure dams are inspected routinely Ensure dams are inspected routinely Ensure dam owners update and Ensure dam owners update and exercise emergency action plans exercise emergency action plans Identify unsafe and dams of concern Identify unsafe and dams of concern to perform pre-disaster inspections to perform pre-disaster inspections Improve dam owner outreach and Improve dam owner outreach and education on maintenance and education on maintenance and preparedness preparedness mall ponds inventory and Complete small ponds inventory and Complete s mapping to fill data gaps mapping to fill data gaps azard Reassess each dam's hazard Reassess each dam's h classification to include new risks classification to include new risks Develop field inspection app that can Develop field inspection app that can inform emergency response inform emergency response Continue to improve Maryland's Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program Build intergovernmental partnerships Pursue other funding opportunities, (e.g., FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities and High Hazard Potential Dam grants) EMERGENCY EMERGENCY RESPONSE & RESPONSE & PREPAREDNESS PREPAREDNESS Key Strategies Key Strategies Erosion Control and Erosion Control and Stormwater Stormwater Management Management Incorporate climate change risks into Incorporate climate change risks into field investigations field investigations Enhance protection of wetland and Enhance protection of wetland and stream buffers stream buffers Increase the use of living shorelines to Increase the use of living shorelines to improve coastal resiliency improve coastal resiliency Screen permit applications for flood Screen permit applications for flood vulnerability vulnerability Offset climate-driven pollution loads toto Offset climate-driven pollution loads Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Bay Work with local governments to ensure Work with local governments to ensure land use plans consider climate impacts land use plans consider climate impacts to water resources.
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Modernize stormwater permits and erosion Modernize stormwater permits and erosion control requirements to incorporate updated control requirements to incorporate updated precipitation and flooding hazards precipitation and flooding hazards Work with local governments to align Work with local governments to align stormwater restoration with flood mitigation, stormwater restoration with flood mitigation, local hazard management planning and local hazard management planning and funding programs funding programs Promote enhanced erosion controls through Promote enhanced erosion controls through compliance assistance and training.