Planning for the Future: Sea Level Rise in

CaliforniaNadine Peterson

Deputy Executive Officer, CA Coastal Conservancy

Sea Level Rise Preparation

Safeguarding California

“We have gone from it is a good thing to deal with

climate change impacts, to integrated policy

objectives in every decision we make”.

Mike McCormick, OPR

Draft California @ 50 Million: California’s Climate

Future, The Governor’s Environmental Goals

and Policy Report, Sept. 2013

Sea Level Rise Hearings

• Little Hoover Commission on Climate

Adaptation

• Assemblyman Rich Gordon Select

Hearings on SLR and the Economy– October 25th, Long Beach on Infrastructure

– November 18th, Sacramento on Recommended Policy

Changes

– Report to full Assembly

Sea Level Rise Guidance

State Agency SLR Guidance

• State of CA Sea-Level Rise Guidance

2013 Update (OPC website)

• CA Adaptation Strategy 2009

–Update end of 2013

• CA Coastal Conservancy: Section IV

Guidance. Steps to Evaluate and Address

Vulnerability to SLR and Extreme Events

in Projects

• CA Coastal Commission Draft SLR Policy

Guidance

California Coastal LiDAR Project http://csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/dataregistry

Partners:OPC, SCC,

NOAA,

USACE,

BCDC, DWR,

DFW, SLC,

DPR, NOAA,

USGS,

FEMA, NPS,

FWS, SFSU,

Scripps, and

private

contractors

Modeling Coastal Climate Change Impacts

for Southern California

Patrick BarnardUSGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey

Our Coast Our Future

•Integrated Modeling of SLR

and Hazards

•Decision Support Tool

•Helps communities,

managers, decision makers

visualize and plan for impacts

•Maps overlaying infrastructure

and ecosystem vulnerabilities

Monterey Bay SLR and Coastal Erosion

Vulnerability Assessment

Photo by Collie Wine

Photo credit: USC- Sea Grant

Funding for Planning and Projects

Statewide Funding

and Integrated

Policy Objectives

• IRWMP

• Strategic Growth

Council

• State Water Board

Coastal Funding

• OPC- LCP Grant Round

• Commission LCP Grant

Round- Nov 2013

• Coastal Conservancy

Climate Ready Grant

Round

• New Coastal- Focused

Bond?

Potential New Funding Sources

• Water Bond

– AB 1331 (WPW Committee)

– SB 420 Wolk

– Other?

• AB 32 Auction Revenues

– Investment Strategy – Wetland

Restoration

– Bills directing use of funds in suspense

Humboldt Bay

Mapping & SLR Vulnerability

• Inventory and map existing

shoreline conditions

• Assess shoreline vulnerability

to breaching or overtopping,

under current tidal and climatic

conditions,

• Assess existing shoreline

vulnerability to sea level rise,

• Identify land uses and

infrastructure at risk

Shoreline structure types

• Sea Level Rise

Adaptation

Planning for Silicon

Valley

• Ecosystem

restoration and

flood risk

managementSouth Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

South San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

South San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

Pacifica State Beach Managed Retreat

LA Times and costalcare.org

• Set back structures

• Rebuilt trail & coastal

access

• Re-established stable

shoreline

Surfer’s Point Managed Retreat

Wrap-up and Lessons Learned