CICEET Progress Report for the period 9/01/08 Through 2/15/09
Project Title: Building SWAMPs in Coastal Oregon Communities
Principal Investigator(s): Derek Godwin, Desiree Tullos
Project Start Date: 12/01/07 (Date when OSU Sponsored Programs completed process for setting up the grant)
Report Compiled By: Derek Godwin
Project Objectives for This Reporting Period
Objectives
1. Engage local decision-makers (planning department staff, planning groups, developers, elected officials, landowners and other stakeholders) by increasing awareness and understanding of the impact development practices have on stormwater and water quality.
2. Empower local planning departments, real estate developers and homebuilders to implement low impact development (LID) strategies ranging from site to landscape scale assessment, planning and implementation of LID practices.
3. Assist local governments in updating land use plans, creating stormwater plans, and developing incentive and regulatory programs that ensure the implementation of innovative and cost-effective low impact development practices.
4. Reduce the implementation costs (time and labor) related to designing new stormwater management practices and reviewing the related development plans.
Tasks to meet objectives
The following is a list of tasks with the original proposed completion dates:
Outreach Education
1. Basic presentations delivered locally as needed (on-going)
2. Train-the-trainer on GIS, Explorer and analytical tools (9/2007)
3. Train local communities on existing analytical and visualization tools (GIS, ISAT, NSPECT, etc.); as requested in pilot communities (3/2008)
4. Assistance on reviewing/updating/developing incentive and regulations for implementing LID practices (on-going)
Oregon Land Use Explorer
1. Phase 1 develop portal web design, contribute statewide data, build mapping tool and land use reporting tool (2/2007)
2. Phase 2 build county-based mapping tool, refine land use on county pages, perform outreach on tools, enhance with additional data (8/2007)
SWAMP development
1. Stormwater design algorithms completed (1/2008)
2. Integrated tool calculation and reporting verified (7/2008)
3. Interface completed offline (9/2008)
4. Interface functioning online (12/2008)
SWAMP and Land Use Explorer training
1. Training workshops (1-4/2009)
2. Application of tool (4-6/2009)
Progress on Tasks
1. Basic presentations SWAMP will eventually be the primary tool in helping communities design LID practices. Until it is created, we work with our agency partners to deliver a wide variety of programs in Western Oregon communities to increase awareness, knowledge and skills related to conducting LID practices.
We have formed advisory committees in the Rogue Valley, Eugene area, and North Coast to aid in the planning and delivery of Low Impact Development education workshops. We are in the process of creating committees in the Albany area and South Coast. The coastal communities (not Albany or Eugene) will be the target areas for reviewing and using the SWAMP tool. We have planned two LID trainings in April and May for SW Oregon and the Willamette Valley (4 total).
Two day-long rain garden workshops, aimed at Master Gardeners and landscapers, were delivered in SW Oregon and in the Willamette Valley. We have several more planned for 2009. We expect to complete our curriculum and training materials (Sea Grant publications) in June. We are working with the South Coast on implementing demonstration rain garden projects.
2. GIS and spatial analysis tools
A. Trainings on the Oregon Explorer on-line tools have been delivered on campus and in a variety of communities to different audiences. See below. (see http://oregonexplorer.info/ to view the latest on-line tools).
B. The National Estuarine Research Reserve on the South Coast is partnering with OSU Extension and the NOAA Coastal Services Center in delivering a 4-day ISAT, NSPECT and other ArcGIS tools training this summer.
3. Oregon Explorer tools
The Oregon Explorer was featured at the Toward One Oregon conference in November 2008. This conference was geared towards community leaders, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and interested citizens. Demonstrations of the Land Use Explorer and the Rural Communities Explorer were highlighted in an interactive exhibit space. Papers from this conference have been digitally archived and are accessible from the Oregon Explorer and ScholarsArchive:(http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/10432).
The Oregon Explorer "train-the-trainers training" is scheduled for the Extension Spring Training Program on Friday, April 17, 2009. At this training, interested extension agents from across the State will be trained on the use of the Oregon Explorer, including the tools and content from all the related topic, basin, and data portals (e.g. Land Use Explorer topic portal and tools).
Oregon Explorer county pages have been enhanced to make relevant tools from the Land Use Explorer and other Explorer sites accessible. The Oregon Explorer county pages will provide access to the SWAMP tool when it is completed.
The Rural Communities Explorer (http://www.oregonexplorer.info/rural) was launched in late October 2008. This new topic portal is relevant because it provides social, demographic, economic and environmental information for all of Oregon's communities. This site will be another place that users from coastal communities will be able to access the SWAMP tool when it is completed.
4. Assistance in land use planning and code/ordinance review
The Oregon Coastal Management Program has provided small grants to individual communities for the purpose of code/ordinance review to support LID practices and create/update stormwater management plans. They are working with the City of Brookings and North Bend to update their codes and ordinances to support LID practices.
5. SWAMP development and trainings We are in the process of building several pieces of the SWAMP tool and conducting presentations and meetings to review the tool and modeling processes. We have hired a faculty member, grad student and undergrad student to help with various components.
Building SWAMP We are in the process of creating the following tools as part of SWAMP.
- Data for project area (in tabular and map form) that is needed to determine pre and post-construction runoff and feasibility of low impact development practice
- 24hour Precipitation (6mth, 2, 5, 10, 25 year return intervals)
- Soil hydrologic classes (A,B,C,D) 10 meter resolution
- 10 meter DEM, slope
- Land cover (CCAP Landsat 2001)
- Infrastructure (roads, cities) and Rivers (hydrography)
- Suitability maps for various LID practices
- Runoff Calculator pre-construction, post-construction, post with LID
- Decision Process for choosing practices to reduce and treat runoff
- LID design guidance (sizing based on runoff to be treated)
- LID fact sheets with basic design drawings and information
- Case Scenarios to help people learn how to use the tool
- Model Documentation data used, references, calculations, limitations, etc.
- Other useful information submit a question, outreach plans, etc.
- Vegetation list? Depending on $$ and time
Presenting SWAMP We have conducted three presentations for planners, consultants, engineers, developers and public works officials for the purpose of reviewing our plans and methods for SWAMP. We feel these reviews have provided substantial feedback to help us design and create a complete first draft of the tool by June 30, 2009. We plan to present the complete draft over the summer and fall of this year, gather feedback and make the final modifications to the project.
Difficulties
The development of the SWAMP tool has been progressing at a reasonable pace. We have invested a lot of time into reviewing our methods and tool design to ensure our project will be supported by peers and used by our target audience. We continue to struggle with finding adequate remote sensing data and receiving technical feedback on designs and modeling techniques in a timely manner. We anticipate needing to file an extension so we can complete the project by December 31, 2009.
Outreach education efforts have continued to be planned and implemented. We have been working with members of our target communities in planning programs and services. We have created advisory committees in our target communities. Our target communities have been requesting workshops and information related to the design and on-the-ground management of stormwater practices. We have several workshops planned for the spring and fall of this year. These workshops will be a nice complement and improve our success in providing outreach on SWAMP.
Data Generated to date
N/A
Project Objectives for Next Reporting Period
Describe Technical and Non-Technical Objectives
We will continue to work towards meeting our overall project objectives outlined above. In particular, we will have completed a complete draft SWAMP tool and provided outreach workshops. We will gain feedback from these presentations and use the information to refine and create the final product.
Work Plan to Meet Objectives
Our work plan has not changed significantly from the tasks outlined above but our expected completion dates have changed. We completed drafts of parts of the SWAMP tool and conducted presentations for reviewing the project. We will focus on creating a complete draft SWAMP tool and plan the delivery of workshops in our pilot communities to test the tool. We expect to have a draft tool completed by the end of June, 2009. We will be delivering workshops using this tool in August - October, 2009. This will lead to a refinement of the tool and project completion in December, 2009.
Expenditures
We have hired a faculty member to build the SWAMP tool. We have hired a grad student to develop the BMP fact sheets and supporting documentation for the tool. We have hired an outreach coordinator to help create advisory committees and plan and deliver the workshops to evaluate the SWAMP tool. We have also hired an undergraduate student to help create user-friendly interfaces for the tool.
Here is a budget summary as of February 3, 2009. The U0513A is for the outreach component and the U0513B is for the on-campus faculty and students that are creating the tool.
| U0513A | Budgeted | Spent |
| Sal&OPE | $34,463 | $6,332 |
| S&S | $10,200 | $5,038 |
| Travel | $6,000 | $1,420 |
| F&A 26% | $13,173 | $3,326 |
| Total | $63,836 | $16,117 |
| U0513B | Budgeted | Spent |
| Staff | $19,483 | $14,345 |
| Student | $55,164 | $8,451 |
| Faculty | $18,789 | $6,264 |
| OPE | $12,574 | $7,885 |
| F&A 33.8% | $29,481 | $10,370 |
| Total | $135,491 | $47,315 |
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