Potential for increased inundation in flood-prone regions of southeast Florida in response to climate and sea-level changes in Broward County, Florida, 2060–69

Decker, Jeremy; Hughes, Joseph D.; Swain, Eric D.

doi:10.3133/sir20185125

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“…The flood inundation map corresponding with the severe rainfall was obtained in partnership with the USGS, using the MODFLOW Broward County Inundation model. This latest MODFLOW inundation model is integrated with a surface-water routing component and an urban hydrology component to offer a more detailed conceptualization of the surface-water/groundwater interactions between interception storage, overland flow, depression storage, and unsaturated zone storage [32]. The scenario was accepted among the participants as an extreme but realistic and relevant scenario to explore the current and future resilience of Fort Lauderdale.…”

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Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Bruijn

Maran²,

Zygnerski³

et al. 2019

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In order to increase the flood resilience of cities (i.e., the ability to cope with flood hazards), it is also crucial to make critical infrastructure functions resilient, since these are essential for urban society. Cities are complex systems with many actors of different disciplines and many interdependent critical infrastructure networks and functions. Common flood risk analysis techniques provide useful information but are not sufficient to obtain a complete overview of the effects of flooding and potential measures to increase flood resilience related to critical infrastructure networks. Therefore, a more comprehensive approach is needed which helps accessing knowledge of actors in a structured way. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States has suffered from flood impacts, especially from disruptions in critical infrastructure. This paper shows how shared insight among different sectors and stakeholders into critical infrastructure resilience and potential resilience-enhancing measures was obtained using input from these actors. It also provides a first quantitative indication of resilience, indicated by the potential disruption due to floods and the effect of measures on resilience. The paper contributes to the existing literature on resilience specifically by considering the duration of disruption, the inclusion of critical infrastructure disruption in flood impact analysis, and the step from resilience quantification to measures.

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Section: Selection Of the Scenario Of The Storylinementioning

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Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Bruijn

Maran²,

Zygnerski³

et al. 2019

Water

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“…Miami-Dade County is addressing climate change and sea-level rise through a multi-faceted approach of mitigation and adaptation, as well as through its participation in the 100 Resilient Cities network. Both Miami-Dade and neighboring Broward counties in southeastern Florida in collaboration with the USGS have been developing models to predict saline-water intrusion into the Biscayne Aquifer (the primary water source in the region) and the potential for increased inundation Decker et al, 2019).…”

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Climate change and water supply: governance and adaptation planning in Florida

2021

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Florida has been described as ‘ground zero’ for climate change in the United States with coastal communities vulnerable to sea-level rise and water supplies under threat from saline-water intrusion, changes in precipitation amounts and patterns, and temperature-driven increases in demands. Water utilities and regional suppliers are responsible for their own water supply plans and adaptation strategies, which are developed largely by a relatively small group of technical specialists (internal and contracted). Water supply planning is prescribed by the state water governance system and local community planning processes. The degree of engagement of large coastal communities and water utilities and regional water suppliers in Florida with climate change research is generally high. Climate change-induced impacts to water supplies and demands over the common 20-year planning horizon are likely to be small relative to increases in demand caused by projected on-going population growth and normal climatic variation. Water utilities in Florida have been incidentally moving toward more climate-resilient supplies (e.g., brackish groundwater desalination) due to the unavailability of additional permittable, inexpensive fresh groundwater rather than climate change concerns. Climate change will narrow the alternatives for future water-supply development.

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“…Broward has further partnered with the USGS to develop a county and local scale groundwater/surface-water model which simulates future scenarios. These simulations helped the County assess the capability of its drainage infrastructure to manage future flooding (Decker, Hughes, and Swain 2019). In terms of countywide SLR projections, Broward has generated new 100 year flood elevation maps to evaluate intensified flooding attributable to SLR.…”

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Staying Afloat: Planning and Managing Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Risk in Florida’s Coastal Counties

Hines

Grandage

Willoughby

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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Climate change and sea level rise present significant risks to coastal governments’ fiscal and service solvency. Current lack of focus on climate change by the U.S. federal and some state governments pressures coastal governments to develop tractable solutions to manage localized risks. This research integrates adaptive governance and capital planning literatures to develop an adaptive risk management framework. Heeding the call for research of coastal county actions to plan for and respond to climate change, we conduct content analysis of planning documents, financial reports, meeting minutes, media reports, and other documentation of all coastal counties in Florida to quantify government efforts to address climate change. Risk management practices are hierarchically categorized by focus area, risk type, and tactic and placed within the adaptive risk management process framework. A well-functioning adaptive risk management process can redefine vague climate change risks into knowable, tractable problems to address.

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Potential for increased inundation in flood-prone regions of southeast Florida in response to climate and sea-level changes in Broward County, Florida, 2060–69

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Climate change and water supply: governance and adaptation planning in Florida

Staying Afloat: Planning and Managing Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Risk in Florida’s Coastal Counties

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