{"id":2974,"date":"2013-04-16T08:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2013-04-16T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T12:37:06","slug":"watershed-meeting-organized-by-army-corps-of-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/watershed-meeting-organized-by-army-corps-of-engineers.html","title":{"rendered":"Watershed meeting organized by Army Corps of Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfrmp.us\/state\/factGeorgia.cfm\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nfrmp.us\/state\/images\/USACE-Logo.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfrmp.us\/state\/factGeorgia.cfm\"><br \/>\nU.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)<\/a> didn&#8217;t know there was<br \/>\na large water problem hereabouts, but now they do, and they want<br \/>\nto take a watershed-wide approach, from the headwaters to the Gulf of<br \/>\nMexico, including both surface water and aquifer issues,<br \/>\nperhaps starting with redrawing FEMA&#8217;s flood maps,<br \/>\nand maybe even including once again funding the state water council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/valdosta-famous-for-wastewater-in-rivers-all-the-way-to-the-gulf.html\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" width=\"215\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/165275_486462496044_8097711_n.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThursday 11 April 2013 there was a rather large governmental meeting<br \/>\norganized by USACE in response to<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2013\/03\/13\/tim-carroll-of-valdosta-at-wwals-board-meeting-tonight\/\"><br \/>\nthe City of Valdosta&#8217;s request of 11 March 2103<\/a>.<br \/>\nYesterday,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2013\/03\/13\/tim-carroll-of-valdosta-at-wwals-board-meeting-tonight\/\"><br \/>\nValdosta City Council District 5 Tim Carroll<\/a> sent the appended<br \/>\nlist of attendees, augmented by a conversation with him on the phone 13 April<br \/>\nand a blog comment by him later that same day on<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2013\/04\/13\/watershed-meeting-organized-by-army-corps-of-engineers\/\">the original post on the WWALS blog<\/a>,<br \/>\nin which he also remarked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nVery good preliminary meeting that hopefully will yield real action on<br \/>\nour region wide water issues. Thanks for sharing this info with WWALS.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We know little else, because no media or private citizens were invited.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USACE Savannah office: Jeff Morris, Georgia Silver Jackets Coordinator and Beth Williams, Hydraulic Engineer\n<li>USACE Jacksonville office: David Apple, Chief, Watershed and Restoration Planning Section\n<li>GADNR: Christopher Hill and Tom Shillock, GAEPD Floodplain Management Unit\n<li>GEMA: Dee Langley, Planning Program Manager and Terry Lunn, Director, Hazard Mitigation Division\n<li>GEMA: Gary Rice &#8211; Regional Field Coordinator\n<li>USGS: Brian McCallum, Supv. Hydrologist\/ADir and Keith McFadden, Physical Scientist\n<li>FEMA Region 4: Susan Wilson, CFM, Floodplain Management and Insurance Branch Chief and Janice Mitchell, Insurance Specialist and Lender Compliance\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThose state and national agencies were brought by:\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJeff Morris<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTeam Leader<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPlan Formulation and Economics Branch<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPlanning Division<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSavannah District, USACE\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHe listed himself as coordinator for the<br \/>\nGeorgia Silver Jackets.<br \/>\nSilver Jackets is a national inter-agency program,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfrmp.us\/state\/index.cfm\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Many Agencies One Solution&#8221;<\/a>,<br \/>\nwith programs developed at the state level.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfrmp.us\/state\/factGeorgia.cfm\"><br \/>\nGeorgia&#8217;s Silver Jacket program<\/a> is apparently<br \/>\nstill getting organized.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLocal elected and employed officials included:\n<\/p>\n<p><H3>Lowndes County:<\/H3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nChairman Bill Slaughter<\/p>\n<li>\nCounty Engineer Mike Fletcher<\/p>\n<li>\nEmergency Director Ashley Tye\n<\/ul>\n<p><H3>City of Valdosta<\/H3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nMayor John Gayle<\/p>\n<li>\nCity Manager Larry Hanson<\/p>\n<li>\nOperations Manager John Whitehead<\/p>\n<li>\nUtilities Director Henry Hicks<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCity Engineer Pat Collins<\/p>\n<li>\nAssistant to City Manager Mara Register<\/p>\n<li>\nStorm Water Director Emily Davenport<\/p>\n<li>\nZoning and Planning Director Matt Martin<\/p>\n<li>\nPublic Information Officer Sementha Mathews<\/p>\n<li>\nCouncil Robert Yost<\/p>\n<li>\nCouncil Tim Carroll\n<\/ul>\n<p><H3>Tift County<\/H3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nChairman Grady Thompson<\/p>\n<li>\nCounty Manager Jim Carter\n<\/ul>\n<p><H3>Tifton<\/H3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nTwo city employees (engineering? planning?)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><H3>Others included:<\/H3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nseveral representatives from the<br \/>\nSouth Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC), including Julie Shewchuk<\/p>\n<li>\nStaffers for<br \/>\nAll three U.S. House members (Sanford Bishop GA-02, Austin Scott GA-08, Jack Kingston GA-01)<br \/>\nand both U.S. Senators.<\/p>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suwanneesatilla.org\/documents\/Suwannee-Satilla_Regional_Water_Council_Contact_List-3_000.pdf\"><br \/>\nDarvin Eason, Chair of the Suwannee-Satilla Water Planning Council<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) didn&#8217;t know there was a large water problem hereabouts, but now they do, and they want to take a watershed-wide approach, from the headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico, including both surface water and aquifer issues, perhaps starting with redrawing FEMA&#8217;s flood maps, and maybe even including once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[6156,465,210,931,65,8771,1970,8701,548,8702,464,12,7,1832,466,215,1695,491,63,6157,6158,342,6,8727,932,985,463,8740,172],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","tag-11-april-2013","tag-alapaha","tag-aquifer","tag-conservation","tag-fema","tag-ga-dnr","tag-gefa","tag-georgia","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-little","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-north-florida","tag-river","tag-south-georgia","tag-tift-county","tag-tifton","tag-tim-carroll","tag-u-s-army-corps-of-engineers","tag-usace","tag-usgs","tag-valdosta","tag-water","tag-watershed","tag-willacoochee","tag-withlacoochee","tag-wwals","tag-wwals-watershed-coalition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}