1. Statewide Threat Assessment
2017 BIA Tribal Providers Conference
November 30, 2017

2. Village Infrastructure Protection (VIP) Program
Coordination and Facilitation vs. Implementation
Threats: Coastal Erosion, Flooding and Permafrost Degradation
Impacts to Infrastructure
GAO Report 551—2009
Photos Courtesy of Lemay Engineering

3. Need for Assessment
GAO Recommendation: “directing the Corps to conduct a flooding assessment in Alaska to augment the Corps’ recently completed erosion assessment”
State of Alaska Immediate Action Working Group (IAWG): “Develop a methodology for prioritization of needs based on the risk to lives, health, infrastructure….”
$5.5 Billion of Public Infrastructure at Risk

4. Statewide Threat Assessment Project
Rural Communities with Population > 20
Evaluate Erosion, Flood, and Permafrost Data
Assign Risk Index for Each Threat
Establish Aggregate Risk Index
Photos Courtesy of Romy Cadiente

5. Project Partners Corps of Engineers Update 2009 Erosion Assessment
Flood Data Analysis
Flood and Erosion Vulnerability Scoring Criteria
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
Evaluate Permafrost Degradation
University of Alaska – Fairbanks (UAF)
Permafrost Vulnerability Scoring Criteria
Combined Scoring

6. Schedule Individual Threat Scoring Criteria: February 2018
Aggregate Scoring: March 2018
Public Meetings: March 2018
GIS Database and Final Report: June 2018

7. Objectives and Uses Consolidated Data
Better Understanding of Vulnerabilities and Threats
State and Federal Prioritization of Resources
Scoring Criteria
Quantify and Communicate Needs

8. GIS Database Statewide Searchable Database Permafrost Data
River Break-up Summaries
Coastal Floods
USACE Floodplain Data
FEMA Disasters
Erosion Data
Inventory of Threatened Infrastructure (Limited)
Individual and Combined Threat Indices
Designed for New Data in the Future

9. Program Intersections
NOAA / Alaska Institute for Justice (AIJ): Community Based Monitoring and Assessment
NSF / UAA: Coastal Process Modeling
Western Alaska LCC / Alaska DNR, DGGS: Flood Mapping
FEMA / Alaska Risk MAP
Photos Courtesy of Lemay Engineering

10. Feedback / Questions

11. Don Antrobus; dantrobus@denali.gov
Don Antrobus;
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