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Montana Resilient Communities ProgramNational Disaster Resilience Competition

National Disaster Resilience Competition

• Encourage projects that increase community resiliency during disasters.

• Identified projects should work to:– Minimize the damage that occurs next time

disaster strikes. – Lessen the costs of recovery.– Provide other benefits that improve the

community outside of disaster.

National Disaster Resilience Competition

Funding Available: $999,108,000 Minimum award: $1,000,000 Maximum Award: $500,000,000

State of Montana is applicant Affected sub-county areas are partners Additional partners include state agencies, public,

private and non-profit entities Two-phase competition

Phase 1 - Framing: March 27th, 2015 Phase 2 - Implementation: October 27th, 2015 Award: January 2016

Montana Resilient Communities Program

Collaborative team of state and federal agencies, private businesses, and non-profit organizations and individuals that will work with communities to help them:

1) Identify local impacts of severe manmade and natural events;

2) Brainstorm more resilient ways of minimizing or avoiding those impacts during future events; and

3) Strengthening local independence, stability, and community.

Montana Resilient Communities Program

• State will leverage funding, resources and partnerships to develop an interactive, web-based platform

• One-stop shop for information, identify public and private funding sources, link users to non-profit and volunteer resources, and provide a list of key projects, resiliency best practices, and subject matter experts.

• MIDURNs will have access to CDBG-NDR funding to complete prioritized projects and serve as models for resiliency

Montana Resilient Communities Program

• Team began resiliency work with initial meetings August through October with local community leaders and residents in the eight eligible communities

• Discussed in detail how their flooding disaster impacted their community’s health and well-being, economy and society, infrastructure and environment, and leadership and strategy.

• Obtained initial ideas of how these communities envision themselves becoming more resilient to severe events and identified ballpark estimates of project types and costs

Project Categories - Flooding•Residential acquisition and relocation•Commercial acquisition and relocation•Stormwater Management & Low Impact

Development Practices•Bank Stabilization•Flood Control Measures•Green Infrastructure (Trails & Improvements)•Architectural Design Alternatives•Critical Infrastructure

Musselshell County and

City of Roundup

Musselshell County and City of Roundup

▫Rural agricultural and mining town in Central Montana

▫$3.67 million in remaining infrastructure damage; 4 state Superfund sites; damage to 44 housing units

▫Repeated flooding of same area of town

2011 Severe Storms and Flooding

Musselshell County and Roundup• Unmet Recovery Need: Housing (Roundup) & Environmental

Degradation (Musselshell County)• Approach: ▫ Acquire key properties to expand floodplain and allow river to

return to its original course during severe events (Housing, Economic Development)

▫ Relocate residences and businesses to historic Main Street buildings to keep residents in town and aid in downtown revitalization (Housing, Economic Development)

▫ Bank stabilization around critical infrastructure; parks and trails for fishing and birdwatching tourism activities developed in areas with acquired property (Economic Development, Area-Wide)

Crow Reservation and

Big Horn County

2011 Severe Storms and Flooding

Crow Reservation and Big Horn County

• Unmet Recovery Need: Housing • Damage to 248 housing units• Approach: ▫ Culturally important for Crow tribal members to live as close to

the water as possible, so focus on pursuing elevated housing architectural design strategies for residences in the floodplain (Housing)

▫ Bank stabilization and relocation of critical infrastructure (Public Facilities, Area-Wide Benefit)

Valley County and City of Glasgow

Valley County and City of Glasgow▫Rural agricultural and railroad town in NE Montana; Air

Force base closed in 1968, resulting in loss of 16,000 residents

▫Majority of housing and critical community facilities built behind levee constructed in early 20th century

▫Serious damage to 246 housing units, loss of $30K in revenue generated from regional softball tournament

▫Storm water system deficiencies led to flooding inside the levee

2011 Severe Storms and Flooding

Valley County and City of Glasgow• Unmet Recovery Need: Housing • Approach: ▫ Address historical right of way issues by acquiring homes in levee

encroachment areas, construct new residential units on school district property in adjacent County and annex into City (Housing)

▫ Reconstruct levee to current standards with parkland and recreational amenities to protect remaining residents and community facilities (Public Facilities)

▫ Improve storm water system to minimize flooding caused inside the levee (Public Facilities)

▫ Relocate economically important recreational facilities (Economic Development)

Fort Belknap Reservation and Blaine County

Fort Belknap Reservation and Blaine County▫Home to Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes and 400-head

bison herd

▫$2.64 million in infrastructure damage

▫High poverty and geographic isolation left residents without food, water, or power for several days

2013 Flooding

Ft Belknap Reservation and Blaine County• Unmet Recovery Need: Housing • Approach: ▫ Develop and implement comprehensive reservation-wide Storm

water Management Plan (Public Facilities)

▫ Emphasize green water management techniques and tools – avert water and store for future use, allow for the generation of backup power from run-off (Public Facilities)

▫ Improving and adding redundancy so potable water is available during times of disaster (Public Facilities)

▫ Relocate residences and key community and cultural facilities located within the floodplain, such as Hays Community Center (Housing, Public Facilities)

Lewis and Clark County

Lewis and Clark County▫Suburban and exurban valley expansion north from capital

city of Helena

▫No zoning; statutory protest provision allowed agricultural and forestry landowners to prohibit adoption of regulations

▫Damage to 110 housing units

▫Upper Ten Mile Creek watershed - primary municipal water for Helena, contains hundreds of abandoned mines and is threatened by critical wildfire risk due to mountain pine beetle kill in 90% of the drainage

2011 Severe Storms and

Flooding

Lewis and Clark County• Unmet Recovery Need: Housing • Approach: ▫ Water management coordination between public and private

sector, including irrigation canal and Northwest Energy dam operations (Public Facilities)

▫ Development of comprehensive flood management plan and corresponding regulations to ensure future growth in the valley acknowledges natural constraints (Area Wide Benefit)

▫ Support ongoing federal/state/local work to rehabilitate forest and vegetation in upper watershed to minimize erosion, toxic mine tailings, water quality impacts, and flooding in valley in severe wildfire event (Housing, Public Facilities)

Fergus County

Fergus County▫Rural agricultural community located in popular hunting

and fishing area for residents and tourists

▫Section of Big Spring Creek channeled in 1961, resulting in bank erosion, impacts to native trout populations, and flooding downstream

▫Resulted in passage of state Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act (1975), regulating the physical alteration of any perennial stream in Montana

▫$5.79 million in infrastructure damage; 17 state Brownfield sites

2011 Severe Storms and

Flooding

Fergus County

• Unmet Recovery Need: Infrastructure• Approach: ▫ Contribute to multi-agency effort to conduct major stream

restoration on the Machler Section of upper Big Spring Creek (Public Facilities)

▫ Recreate 3,200 feet of meandering stream within an inset floodplain with bank stabilization, grade control, and revegetation with live planting and seeds (Public Facilities)

▫ Expansion of 100-year floodplain delineation (Planning)

▫ Acquisition and removal of occupied structures within new floodplain area (Public Facilities, Housing)

Yellowstone County and

City of Laurel

Yellowstone County and City of Laurel▫Railroad town within commuting distance to Montana’s

largest city of Billings

▫Cenex oil refinery is also major employer in community; adjacent to Yellowstone River

▫ In 2011, 63,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into Yellowstone River after flooding exposed a pipeline buried in riverbed

▫$9,096,544 in infrastructure damage; 7 state Superfund sites

2011 Severe Storms and

Flooding

Yellowstone County and City of Laurel

• Unmet Recovery Need: Infrastructure• Approach:

▫ Water Intake Replacement – To be done in a resilient manner, protecting cultural resources above the intake.

▫ Hydrologic Study to explore solutions to the hydrologic issues posed by bridges upstream.

Resiliency Project Types and Costs• Website Development - $250,000

• Planning - $1 million

• Flood Control (Public Facility) - $14.2 million

• Stormwater (Public Facility) - $10.6 million

• Bank Stabilization (Area Wide Benefits) - $1.6 million

• Residential Acquisition (Housing) - $31.6 million

• Commercial Acquisition (Economic Development) - $4.1 million

• Trails & Recreational Improvements (Area Wide Benefits) - $7.0 million

TOTAL REQUEST: $80.4 million

Benefit – Cost Analysis• Completed independently for each Project Category, with the

stipulation that the most beneficial projects will likely involve multiple approaches.

• Cost estimates based on MID-URN outreach and general equivalent costs for similar work statewide.

• Explored factors relating to:– Resiliency Value– Environmental Value– Social Value– Economic Development Value

• Net BCR of 1.64

Resilient Communities Program TimelineWave 1

Activity• Resilience Education• Problem Identification– Interdisciplinary Team

Appointment– Continued resilience

project development

• Project selection & BCA• Preliminary Design

Timeframe• Current/Ongoing• Current/Ongoing• Post-award; early 2016

• By September 2016• Late 2016

Resilient Communities Program TimelineWave 1

Activity• Permitting/Agency

Review• Final Design• Hiring of Contractor(s)• Construction &

Implementation• Project completion

Timeframe• Spring 2017

• Spring 2017• Spring 2017• 2017 through 2018

• 2022

Resilient Communities Program TimelineWave 2

Activity• Resilience Education• Problem Identification– Interdisciplinary Team

Appointment– Continued resilience

project development

• Project selection & BCA• Preliminary Design

Timeframe• Current/Ongoing• Current/Ongoing• Post-award; early 2016

• By September 2017• Late 2017

Resilient Communities Program TimelineWave 2

Activity• Permitting/Agency

Review• Final Design• Hiring of Contractor(s)• Construction &

Implementation• Project completion

Timeframe• Fall 2017/Winter 2018

• Spring 2018• Summer 2019• 2019 through 2022

• 2022

Application submitted on October 27th, 2015 Review application on Commerce Website

Contact Staff:David Corcoran Allison Mouch

Planning Specialist Planning Bureau Chief

(406) 841-2780 (406) 841-2770

dcorcoran@mt.gov amouch@mt.gov