# Presentation: 454426

## Floodplain ManagementSESSION 1

**Course prepared by:**
** ****	****Bob Freitag, CFM    (Project Course Developer)**
** ****	****Donald R. Reichmuth, PhD    (Stream Systems)**
** ****	****Susan Bolton, PhD, PE    (Biological Landscape)**
** ****	****Rod Emmer, PhD    (Risks to Settlements)**
** ****	****Larry Larson, PE, CFM, (Risks to Settlements)**
** ****	****Elliot Mittler, PhD   (Rivers as Legal Battlegrounds)**
** ****	****Frank Westerlund, PhD   (Riverside Development)**
** ****	****Stephen Newmark   (Course Development Support)**

**Notes:**
Title Page for Session 2

## Interpretive Marker  

**Notes:**
Interpretive marker along the Kootowis- Staghorn Fisheries restoration project (BC Canada). -

## An IntroductionFour Functions of River Systems

**Remove Erosional Debris**
- Most Important
- Acts Over Long Periods
**Remove Excess Water**
- Importance Secondary
- Acts Sporadically Over Short Periods
**Provide fresh water supply**
- Necessary to sustain life
**Transport chemicals and nutrients**

## Module OneIntroduction (lenses from which we view riverine corridors

- Session 1	Course Introduction
- Objectives:
- Discuss the course overview, purpose, and overall objectives.
- Describe the student evaluation criteria.
- Through a class exercise offer practice in applying terms and concepts that will be used throughout the course.

## Module Two  Stream Systems on Dynamic Earth

- Session 2	 River Basins and Tectonics
- Session 3	 Glaciation & Erosion Processes – The 			    Production of Sediment
- Session 4 Meteorological Processes – The Production 		    of Water on Land
- Session 5	 Land Use & Cover** –** The History of Resource 		    Utilization
- Session 6	 Stream Mechanics** **Framework – Evolution    			    and Flow Analysis
- Session 7	 Stream Management** **Framework – The 		    Physical Principals and Practice (and brief 		    presentation of module exercise)
- Session 8 Examination and Case Study Presentations

## Module ThreeBiological Landscape: Its impact on the floodplain and floodplain management 

- Session   9	Introduction to Ecological Principles and 		   Ecoregions
- Session 10 	Stream and River Ecology
- Session 11 	Water Quality
- Session 12 	The Effects of Land Use/Land Cover 			   Changes on Stream Ecology
- Session 13 	Management and Restoration of River 			   Corridors and Floodplains
- Session 14 	Examination and Case Study Presentations

## Module FourRisks to Human Settlements

- Session 15   What is a Hazard?
- Session 16   What is Risk?
- Session 17   Floodplain Management Exercise 			             (Including a brief discussion of 				   disasters in the U.S.
- Session 18   Floodplain Management
- Session 19   Mitigating Flood Losses
- Session 20   Mitigation Programs and Discussion of 		             Exercise Tasks 1 and 2; Impacts and 		             Measures

##  Module Five Policy History (rivers as a legal battleground)

- Session 21   Public Policy in the American Federal   		             System – An Overview_ _
- Session 22   Federal Policies
- Session 23   State Policies
- Session 24   Local Policies
- Session 25   Special Districts and Landowners
- Session 26   An Introduction to Riverside Developments
- Session 27   Examination and Case Study Presentations

##  Module SixFinal course project (Exercise/discussion evaluation)

- Session 28   Introduction of Case Study Problem and    		             Team Exercise
- Session 29   Team Presentations
- Session 30   Team Presentations

## Session 1Case study – Slide one

**Notes:**
Picture of a the U shaped glaciated valley were a second home development is being planned

## Session 1Case study – Slide two

**Notes:**
Picture of a the river running through the valley where a development is being planned.

## Session 1Case study – Slide Three

**Notes:**
Picture of a the forest bordering both sides of the river running through the valley where a development is being planned.

## Session 1Case study – Slide Three

**Notes:**
Picture of stream with extensive woody debris.