2016-07-18 General Committee Meeting - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - Flood Management Plan

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10.1 Disaster Management Preparations                            10.1.1    Disaster management flood maps

Disaster management preparation refers to the capacity           Noosa Council has prepared a series of flood inundation
of the organisation to prepare for a disaster management         maps which depict Minor, Moderate, Major and Extreme
activation related to flooding. Typical preparations include:    flood events. These maps represent flood study findings
                                                                 for current climate design flood events with average
•   the production of a series of flood inundation maps
                                                                 recurrence intervals of 2 years, 10 years, 100 years and 500
    which depict a range of flood events across vulnerable
                                                                 years respectively.
    areas;

•   the establishment of observable triggers which               The disaster management flood map series include
    may inform the activation of disaster management             references to radio telemetry water level gauges associated
    responses;                                                   with the mapped waterways. Anticipated design event
                                                                 flood levels at each gauge’s location have been referenced
•   ensuring adequate redundancies exist for critical
                                                                 from the relevant studies and are presented on the maps
    systems and reference material; and
                                                                 as a series of flood totems. Real-time water level readings
•   the training of relevant officers in being able to monitor   transmitted from the gauges to the BoM’s Enviromon
    real-time flood information (rainfall and water levels)      system can be cross referenced to the flood totems to
    via the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) Enviromon                visually determine the equivalent design flood event for
    system or equivalent.                                        each gauge location. The description of this design event
                                                                 as either a Minor, Moderate, Major and Extreme flood
Council has disaster management plans in place for
                                                                 event can then be used in communications throughout the
Cooran, Kin Kin, Pomona and Daintree Estate.
                                                                 disaster management stakeholders and the community.

                                                                 For this process to function, relevant officers need to
                                                                 be capable of accessing and extracting real-time flood
                                                                 information from the BoM’s Enviromon system.




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