| Flood Risk Management - Wednesday, May 26th |
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This is the programme for the separately bookable focus day on Flood Risk Management.
To view the programme for the National Emergency Management Summit click here.
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| 8:50 |
Welcome and introduction
to day 2
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Dr Caroline McMullan, Dublin City
University |
| 9:00 |
OPENING ADDRESS: Adaptation -
preparing for climate change. |
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The widespread flooding in Ireland in 2009 highlighted the huge
exposures of both citizens and infrastructure to a hazard that is
likely to become more frequent in the future due to changes in
rainfall brought about by climate change. This paper will provide
an overview of the most recent findings on the likely impacts of
climate change on flooding for Irish catchments and explore the
challenges that confront us in ensuring successful adaptation to
a changed climate. Key challenges to be discussed will include;
uncertainty in future climate impacts, how we might adapt given
uncertainties and how we might define successful adaptation. |
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Dr Conor Murphy, ICARUS (Irish Climate Analysis
and Research Units), NUI Maynooth
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| 9:25 |
Institutions for floods risks and
emergencies |
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The floods of late last year have exposed some major weaknesses
in the organisation of flood management and emergency
response. The following lessons are drawn:
- There should be national flood management authority, which
should take over the duties of all other national bodies that
relate to flood control.
- The river basin districts should take over flood management
duties from the county councils.
- Flood risk should be a major factor
in planning permission and land zoning.
- Regional flood prediction
and warning systems need to build to guide emergency responses.
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Dr Richard Tol, Research Professor, Economic
and Social Research Institute |
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MINIMISING RISK
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| 9.55 |
Update on flood risk and
implementation of a sustainable and
appropriate approach |
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- Strategic overview of flood risk
- Challenges of quantifying flood risk
- Future solutions
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Tony Smyth, Chief Engineer, Office of Public
Works |
| 10:20 |
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
ADDRESS: Assessing the progress of
the implementation of the Pitt Review
recommendations |
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- Summer 2007 Floods
- Multi agency response
- Learning from Pitt
- Progress and what's next
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Hilary Aldridge, Head of Incident Management,
Flood and Coastal Risk Management Directorate,
Environment Agency, UK |
| 10:50 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.10 |
Perspectives from the insurance
industry |
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Impact of recent flood events on policyholders
and insurers
- Insurance industry response
- Implications for policyholders
- Government and industry co-operation on
flood
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Aidan Hanratty, Director, Risk
Management, Allianz |
| 11.35 |
INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY: The
2007 Gloucestershire Floods |
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In the summer of 2007, Gloucestershire experienced one of
the worst peacetime civil emergencies the UK has seen. Not
only did Gloucestershire experience severe flooding but the
county also lost a main water treatment works resulting in
200,000 people being without mains water for 2 weeks. In his
presentation Iain will reveal how the emergency agencies
responded to the crisis, the business contingency
arrangements, the recovery phase and lessons learned.
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Iain Bryson, Head of Emergency Management
Service, Gloucestershire County Council
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| FORECASTING FLOODS
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| 12:00 |
Can we make better choices in flood
risk management? What have we learnt? |
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Sustainable development means doing more with less, thus
posing three central questions;
- More 'what?'
- Less 'what'? and crucially
- How?
It also means doing better, learning. So what have we learnt so
far? How can we increase the rate at which we learn? And, how
can economics help us? |
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Professor Colin Green, Flood Hazard Research
Centre, Middlesex University |
| 12:25 |
The National Flood Mapping
Programme |
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- Overview and background of flood maps in Ireland
- Existing mapping
- Ongoing and future mapping programmes
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Gavin Poole, Flood Risk Assessment and
Management section, Office of Public Works |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
| DESIGNING FOR RESILIENCE
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| 1:50 |
Welcome back from the Chair |
| 1:55 |
The Importance of preserving (or even
extending) wetlands as a natural flood
defence mechanism |
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This presentation will report on the Final Recommendations of
the Flood Awareness and Prevention Policy Network (FLAPP)
a pan-European Interreg 3c funded project completed in 2008.
This paper will present some important findings of a Wetlands
Survey completed in County Monaghan in 2007. It will then
outline the development of the Ballybay Wetlands Centre
and how it is beginning to carve out a role in education and
awareness raising about our aquatic resources and
their importance. |
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Gretta McCarron, Ballybay Wetlands Centre |
| 2:15 |
Case Study: Triton System for Dublin
Bay and South Fingal Coasts
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The development of Ireland's first coastal flood forecasting
system under the European SAFTER project |
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Tony Maguire, Project Manager, SAFER, Dublin
City Council
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| 2:30 |
The importance of high resolution
data for flood management planning, flood
prediction and managing the emergency
response
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Our speaker will discuss the requirement for
high-resolution, real-time data delivery to
achieve an understanding of the physical processes
in a catchment and how this real-time
data can significantly enhance our operational
ability to manage, assess and respond to risk.
The paper will present how a well designed
monitoring system can serve as a very cost
effective tool in flood management and also
discusses the relationship between predictive models and monitoring.
The paper will also present how real-time monitoring of
key vulnerable infrastructure is of significant benefit in managing
an emergency response. |
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John Wallace, Director, IDS Monitoring
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| 2:55 |
DEPLOY - Real-time monitoring of
our waterways for event detection and
management |
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DEPLOY is a collaborative technology demonstration project
between the Tyndall National Institute, Dublin City University
and industry partners Intelligent Data Systems which aims
to investigate how state of the art technology can be implemented
for cost effective, continuous, real-time monitoring of a
river catchment. The deployment aims to demonstrate sensor
network capability in collecting real-time water quality data. The
data can also be used to inform decision makers as to other
catchment related scenarios outside the realm of water quality
monitoring per se as evidenced during the recent flood even in
November 2009 in Cork city. |
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Brian O'Flynn, R&D Activity Leader, Tyndall
National Institute
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| 3:20 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:40 |
Flood defence
infrastructure: Reliability &
failure
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What are the priorities for capital spending?
What's needed to develop an effective flood
defence strategy?
Where are the infrastructure gaps?
Flood Resilience for critical infrastructure |
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John Power, Director General, Engineers Ireland
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| PLANNING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
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| 4:05 |
PANEL DISCUSSION: Planning
development: Have we learned anything?
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Should elected representatives have a say in allowing
planning developments or should they simply be allowed the right to
challenge what they consider bad planning? Panellists will
include leading industry experts including: |
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Jack Keyes, City and County Managers Assoc.
Michael Silke, Chairman, IFA Flood Management
Team
Joe Crockett, County Manager, Kilkenny County
Council
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| 4:30 |
Case Study: Cork City Council's
response to the emergency caused by the
flooding of the Water Treatment Plant
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Cork City Council was required to provide alternative
water facilities to 50,000 people during the November / December 2009
floods which resulted in the loss of the Lee Road water supply to the city.
- Communications Response
- Crisis Management Response
- Engineering Response
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Michael O'Brien, Senior Engineer, Environment
Directorate, Cork City Council
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| 5:00 |
Conference Close |