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4 Gaps Between Practices and Principles: Adjusting Planning and Guidance
4 Gaps Between Practices and Principles: Adjusting Planning and Guidance
Pages 51-64
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As noted in Chapter I, water management principles have been historically articulated by several water policy organizations, including the Gland Waterways Commission, the President's Water Resources Policy Commission, the Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources, the Water Resources Council, and the National Water Commission. Among the important water management principles identified by these groups include: · Management should be informed by up-to-date assessments of current conditions of water, related land, and ecological resources.
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Examples include the AlabamaCoosa-Tallapoosa/Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACT/ACF) project in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida; the Everglades restoration project (Box 4.~; the Upper Mississippi Navigation Study; and the MIssoun River Basin Operations Study.
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The shill Tom watershed level to project planning within the Corps comes at a time when many professionals within the water resources community are calling for a renewal of water management at the watershed level (Schad, 1998~. A recent Water Science and Technology Board report (NRC, 1998)
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Comprehensiveness There are no particular incentives for the Corps to emphasize basinwide planning, which results in a lack of comprehensiveness in the Corps' planning processes for type A projects. The principle of comprehensiveness in water resource planning historically includes two important concepts: the first is that consideration should be given to all opportunities to develop, protect, or restore the water and related land and ecological resources; the second recognizes that substantial economies of scale can be achieved through the use of multiple-purpose projects or reservoirs.
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As coordination is required between the Upper Mississippi River EMP, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser~ce's ecosystem management and restoration efforts, and the Corps' navigation studies and floodplain management assessments, the governors of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin created the Upper Mississippi 56 New Directions in Water Resources Planning
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Examples to which this strategy could prove beneficial would be the Upper Mississippi River navigation study and the Everglades restoration project. Programmatic authorizations and appropriations would allow the Corps to reduce time between projects, schedule its resources and those of its contractors more effectively, and eliminate costly duplication of administrative processes.
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In recent years, several Corps projects have been significantly influenced by or modified to accommodate designs advocated by local governments. Among them are: · nonstn~cb~ flood damage reduction measures on the South Platte River in Littleton, Colorado, Mingo Creek In Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Indian Bend Wash In Scott~e, Arizona; · Gila River relocations project at AllenviDe, Arizona; · recent innovations In river and floodplain restoration and flood damage reduction projects in the Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks in Richmond, California; San Pedro Creek In Pacific, California; and Napa River in Napa, California (Box 4.2~.
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A review of cost-shanng provisions for some similar multiple-objective floodplain evacuation, river floodplain restoration, and flood damage reduction projects shows widely varying costs incurred by local entities, with some poorer communities paying substantially more Can wealthier ones for similar project outputs. For example, the 45 percent-55 percent nonfederal-federal cost-sharing arrangement for a floodplain restoration project in the low-income community of North Richmond on Wildcat Creek California, with a poverty rate of 64.5 percent (defined by average household income through Me U.S.
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Several case studies published between 1977 and 1997 identify a range of issues which descnbe barriers to the Corps' constriction of nonstructural flood damage reduction projects (Field, 1977; Platt, 1979; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1979; Chin, 1981; Muster, 1982; Institute for Water Resources, 1983; Moore and Moore, 1989; Chao et al., 1997; Shabman et al., 19971.
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The committee recommends that these benefits be included In project benefit-cost analysis through a standardized framework and methods. Regarding cost-sharing arrangements, these case studies revealed a class of older, authonzed, and still active flood damage reduction projects that are not benefiting from several post-1986 legislative reforms.
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Several water and related resource issues-such as floods, seclirnentation, and navigation in the Upper Mississippi River, investments in ports in Gulf coast areas, public water supplies In Califorma and the Northeast, Everglades restoration, protection of endangered species in the West, and protection and restoration of water quadity in the Great Lakes, the Chesapeake Bay and other sensitive water bodies-continue to present management challenges. The last comprehensive assessment of resource conditions and needs was prepared by the WRC in 1978.
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Emphasis should be upon those purposes for which the Corps and cooperating agencies are responsible, namely, flood damage reduction, hurricane damage protection, beach nourishment, aquatic ecological restoration, and navigation. The committee is mindful that national assessments under the auspices of the WRC were rich in detail, expensive to produce, and did not play a prominent role in the establishment of national water policies.
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