MVP Community Resilience Building Workshop
- When:
- Thu May 26th 2022 at 04:00 PM
- Where:
- Clarksburg Community Center
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712 W Cross Rd
Clarksburg MA, 01247 Directions
Workshop Objectives
- Identify and characterize a top concern that is exacerbated by Climate Change.
- Develop action that reduces vulnerabilities and reinforce strengths for your community that fit within the priorities of the MVP program.
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ACTIVITIES and OBJECTIVES |
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4:00 p.m. -- Welcome, Workshop Overview, Introductions Objective: Workshop purpose |
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4:05 p.m. -- Overview Presentation on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and MVP Program Objective: Identify risks – What has already been identified? What is the data telling us? |
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4:25 p.m. -- Presentation of Prioritized Project Area by Carl McKinney Objective: Review site selected, uses, issues, how & why this area was prioritized |
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4:30 p.m – Background Presentation on Hydrology, Geology, & Soils by Jim Brandon Objective: Understand the site characteristics as it relates to flooding |
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4:40 p.m. – Characterize the Site Objective: Detail area uses (current and past) & what issues exist and prevent use |
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5:00 p.m – Break! Grab some snacks & walk to the town field |
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5:15 p.m. – Project Development Objective: Develop project components to apply for MVP action grant funding |
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6:00 p.m. -- Wrap up and Next Steps |
A FEW KEY TERMS
Natural Hazard – Source of harm or difficulty created by a meteorological, environmental or geological event.
Risk – Potential for damage, loss, or other impacts created by the interaction of natural hazards with people, structures, facilities and systems that have value to the community.
Vulnerability – Characteristics of people, structures, facilities and systems that make them susceptible to damage from a given hazard.
Preparedness – Actions taken to plan, organize, equip, train and exercise to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevent, protect against, mitigate the effects of, respond to, and recover from those threats that pose the greatest risk.
Resilience – The ability of a system to anticipate, absorb, accommodate or recover from environmental stress or the effects of a severe event.
Mitigation – Sustained actions taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to life and property from hazards; the work done up front to reduce the impacts of a hazard.
100-Year Flood Event – Statistically speaking, a flood that has a 1% annual chance of occurring, – a town could experience 100-yr flood events in a short period of time.
100-Year Floodplain – The area of flooding associated with a 1% annual probability of occurrence; the boundary of the 100-yr floodplain is used to assign flood risk, including by FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program.
Climate Change – The shift of weather patterns globally and regionally that cause local effects on temperature, precipitation, seasonal stream flow, etc.