Agenda

Tue
Apr 08
8:00am - 10:00am Registration

Morning General Session

Presiding: Mark Land, PE, Chairman, Environmental and Water Resources Conference Committee

 

8:25am - 8:30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Trivia configuration– Mark Land, Committee Chair

8:30am - 9:15am E Avenue Oxbow Wetland Creation and Flood Reduction Basin

Kate Barnes, PE, CFM. HR Green, Inc.

9:15am - 10:00am Using Field-Based Geophysical Methods to Survey Levees

Jeff Jackson, Recovery Operations Officer and Office of Levee Safety, Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management; and Jason Vogelgesang, M.S., Geophysicist, Iowa Geological Survey

10:00am - 10:15am Break - Interactive Trivia Part I

10:15am - 11:00am National Weather Service Flood Inundation Mapping Services

Jeff Zogg, Senior Service Hydrologist, NOAA/National Weather Service

11:00am - 11:45am Record Flooding in Northwest Iowa, June 2024

Padraic O’Shea, Statistician, U.S. Geological Survey

11:45am - 12:45pm Luncheon

2022 Northwest Iowa Flood Overview
Greg Harson, Captain, Iowa DNR Law Enforcement

Afternoon General Session

Moderator –  Brad Roeth, Environmental and Water Resources Conference Committee Member

12:45pm - 1:30pm Brandon Road Interbasin Project

Kirk Sunderman, Technical Lead, US Army Corps of Engineers

1:30pm - 2:15pm Bacon Creek Breach Modeling for Emergency Preparedness

Bradley Hoefer, CFM, Floodplain Manager/Hydraulic Engineer, USACE-Omaha

2:15pm - 3:00pm Cedar Rapids WPCF AGS Influent Lift Station – More Than Just Wastewater Pumping

Mike Butterfield, PE, Vice President, Project Manager, HDR and Lauren Michael, WPC Plant Manager, Utilities Department

3:00pm - 3:15pm Break - Interactive Trivia Part II

3:15pm - 4:00pm US 61 Roadway Realignment in a Floodplain

Jim D. Ellis, PE, Preliminary Bridge Design Unit Manager, Iowa Department of Transportation

4:00pm - 5:00pm Drawing the Line: Ethics in Engineering and Surveying

Mindy Bryngelson, PE, Municipal Engineer, City of Ames

5:00pm Adjourn

Wed
Apr 09
Floodplain Permitting Workshop Agenda

This full day workshop will help engineers understand the State of Iowa’s and FEMA requirements for permitting projects near or in our streams and rivers. The workshop will cover the administrative code that governs permitting and when permits are required, best practices for what to submit for permit applications including when and what hydraulic modeling will need to be submitted, and what different flood mapping zones mean and when a “no-rise” certification is required.   Attendees will come away with a better understanding of state and local floodplain permitting rules and best practices to streamline the permitting process.

8:30 – 9:00 am Introduction (basics of DNR Environmental Services Division)

9:00- 9:30 Administrative Rules overview

9:30 -10:15 When permits are required

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 10:45 Using PERMT

10:45 - 12:00 Submittal requirements for various project types

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 Zone AE and No-rise certifications

2:00 - 2:15 Break

2:15 - 3:00 National Flood Insurance Program and Local Permitting

3:00 - 3:30 Sovereign Lands Permitting

3:30 - 4:30 General Question/Answer Session