StormSmart Coasts

Daniella HirschfeldNOAA CSC Coastal Management Fellow

Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management

Helping coastal communities cope with floods, storms, sea level rise, and climate change

Implementation – Pilot Projects and Transferable Knowledge

12 March 2009

StormSmart Coasts

Daniella Hirschfeld(617) 626-1096

daniella.hirshfeld@state.ma.us

NOAA CSC Coastal Management FellowMassachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management

This presentation summarizes the contents of the StormSmart Coasts website (www.mass.gov/czm/stormsmart/index.htm) and

highlights the current implementation projects. For further information please refer to the website or contact the project

manager Daniella Hirschfeld.

Overview

• StormSmart Coasts – The Basics

• Implementation – The Five Projects

• Transferability – Networks & Workshops

• The Future – StormSmart Coasts

Massachusetts is currently facing serious problems along its coastline.By addressing these concerns we will be able to make our coastal

communities more resilient and thus more prepared for sea level rise.

Cost of repeat of 1938

Hurricane today?

1938

StormSmart Coasts

sea level rise/climate change

floodingstorms

Goal: Help Communities To Better Manage And Cope With:

erosion

Our website provides a single site for local officials working in coastal communities to find current and relevant resources.

Local NGOsLocal NGOs

But putting solutions on-

line isn’t enough if

nobody finds them

CZMCZM

FEMAFEMANational NGOs

National NGOs

NOAANOAA

StormSmart Coasts gathers the information locals need . . .

Everybody has a website. . .

CZMCZM

NOAANOAA

Local NGOsLocal NGOs

FEMAFEMA

National NGOs

National NGOs

. . . and provides links so users can tap into outside resources

We help everybody find resources

No Adverse Impacts(NAI)

Hazard Identification

Planning

Regulations and

Development

Standards

Infrastructure

Education and Outreach

Emergency Services

Mitigation and

Shore Protection

Options

Implementation – The Five Projects

StormSmart Coasts

Boston

Hull

Duxbury Kingston &Plymouth

Falmouth

Oak Bluffs

Boston

• Sea Level Rise Overlay District

• Mapping

• Increased understanding of the impacts

• Urban building guidelines

Hull

• Improved understanding of the accuracy LIDAR data

• Visualization of Sea Level Rise

• Increasing the buy in of other boards

• Connect with Community Rating System

• Densely developed

Duxbury, Kingston & Plymouth

• Education and Outreach– No Adverse Impacts– Low Impact

Development

• Barrier beach dynamics

• Cross town collaboration

Falmouth

• Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan incorporating sea level rise

• Post disaster planning

• Sparsely developed

Oak Bluffs

• Model floodplain management by-law

• Incorporation of NAI

into legal framework

Transferability – Networks & Workshops

Transferability – Networks & Workshops

Regional website

Town pages

Coastal advisory group

Transferability – Networks & Workshops

Present at current meetings

Host post project regional events

The Future – StormSmart Coasts

Hazard Areas Identified

and flooding^

Improved By-Laws

Improved Development Standards

StormSmart Coasts

Daniella Hirschfeld617-626-1096

hirschfeld.daniella@gmail.comNOAA CSC Coastal Management Fellow

Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management

Helping coastal communities cope with floods, storms, sea level rise, and climate change

2008 AMWS Annual Meeting