Draft Visual Key for Initial Determination of Site Eligibility and Classification

1. Draft Visual Key for Initial Determination of Site Eligibility and Classification Emergency Watershed Protection Program

2. Goal of Training Slides • Provide basic knowledge of program qualifications and general eligibility • Provide visual key to field office personnel • The DC or representative will be able to decide: • If the event potentially qualifies for the EWP program • If the site is a potential exigency so a damage survey report team needs to be dispatched immediately

3. Program Eligibility • Current condition poses an imminent threat to: • Health • Life • or Property • Caused by Single Natural Event that resulted in a watershed impairment • Economically, Environmentally, and Socially Defensible, and Technically Sound

4. Eligible Measures • Reduce threat to life and property from WS impairment (sediment and debris) • Provide protection from flooding and erosion by retarding runoff • Remove debris deposited by natural disaster that would affect runoff or erosion • Restore hydraulic capacity to the natural environment based on pre-event conditions • Economically, socially, and environmentally defensible

5. Measures Must Provide • Immediate, adequate and safe relief from hazard • Limited to measures that reduce applicable threat to a stable condition • Approximate conditions prior to event (impairment)

6. Not Eligible for EWP • Restoring Farmland Productivity • Replacement of Infrastructure • Flood Fighting and Rescue • Correcting Pre-existing Conditions • Performing O&M type Work • Repair of a site more than 2 times in 10 years for same type event. • Work on Federal lands • Repair Animal Waste Lagoons • Increase pre-disaster channel capacity

7. Not Eligible for EWP (cont.) • Work competing with other Federal Programs [FSA’s-Emergency Conservation Program; Federal Highway Administration (FHA) -Emergency Program; or Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA)] • Repair, rebuild, or maintain public or private transportation facilities or facilities of FHA • Removal of sediment or debris from reservoirs • Work on levees of rivers with drainage of greater than 400 square miles • Landscaping for aesthetics

8. Exigency • Demands an immediate action to avoid potential loss of life or property. • Including potential 2nd disaster shortly after initial event to cause new damages that could cause potential loss of life or property without immediate action • Measures are temporary solution until permanent measure can be implemented by sponsor • All Work done within 10 days of receiving funds

9. Visuals of Channels • Bridges • Roads • Protection of levees • Houses • Other public and private property

10. Channel – Bridge (1) Erosion based? Yes No Threat to life or property? Potentially Eligible? No Immediate Threat? No

11. Why Not Eligible The erosion is not affecting the bridge by undermining the site. If the eroding stream bank was affecting the abutment of the bridge then property is being threatened and therefore is eligible for the program.

12. Channel – Bridge (2) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? No

13. Channel – Bridge (2) Bank erosion is threatening the abutment of the bridge and therefore is eligible for the program. It is not exigent due to low risk of collapse from another event.

14. Channel – Bridge (3) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? Yes Potentially Exigent? Yes

15. Channel – Bridge (3) Stream bank erosion is affecting bridge abutment and therefore is eligible for the program. It is potentially exigent due to risk of collapse from another event. Thissite will need to be reviewed by an engineer to assess potential failure risk.

16. Channel – Bridge (4) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Immediate Threat? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Potentially Exigent? Yes

17. Channel – Bridge (4) Stream bank erosion is affecting bridge abutment and therefore is eligible for the program. It is potentially exigent due to risk of collapse from another event. Thissite will need to be reviewed by an engineer to assess potential failure risk.

18. Channel – Bridge (5) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? No

19. Channel – Bridge (5) Bank erosion is threatening the abutment of the bridge and therefore is eligible for the program. It is not exigent due to low risk of collapse from another event.

20. Channel – Bridge (6) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? No Potentially Eligible? No

21. Channel – Bridge (6) Stream bank erosion is occurring but not threatening the bridge abutment or road and therefore is not eligible for the program (no imminent threat to life or property).

22. Channel – Bridge (7) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? No No Potentially Eligible?

23. Channel – Bridge (7) Here the erosion from the event has damaged the property to a point that it needs to be rebuilt. EWP funds cannot be used to rebuild property, therefore it is not eligible.

24. Channel – Road Protection (1) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? No

25. Channel – Road Protection (1) Bank erosion is occurring but there is no road in the picture. If the road is an agricultural road only, then .

26. Channel – Road Protection (2) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? Yes Potentially Exigent? Yes

27. Channel – Road Protection (2) Bank erosion is threatening to undermine the road and looks imminent (beginning to erode into the road) thus eligible. The encroachment on the road creates an immediate need for protection, thus it is exigent.

28. Channel – Road Protection (3) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? No

29. Channel – Road Protection (3) Bank erosion is threatening to undermine the road. A site like this should be reviewed by the DSR team even though it may not look like an imminent threat. A final determination will use the present erosion damage plus depth of channel and type of soil material to assess risk of failure.

30. Channel – Road Protection (4) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? No

31. Channel – Road Protection (4) Bank erosion is threatening to undermine the road. The DSR team should review the site and based on soils erodibility the site may be deemed eligible.

32. Road Protection (5) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? No

33. Road Protection (5) Bank erosion is undermining the road and looks imminent (beginning to erode into the road). However, if the eroded area makes the site unusable (closes the road) then we have nothing to protect and therefore ineligible. Remember we cannot repair the road or other infrastructure.

34. Road Protection (6) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? Yes Potentially Exigent? Yes

35. Road Protection (6) Bank erosion is undermining the road and looks imminent (beginning to erode into the road) thus eligible. The site is potentially exigent due to the immediate threat to life or property. The damage may not look severe, but life and property would be at risk passing along this site.

36. Road Protection (7) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? Yes Potentially Exigent? Yes

37. Road Protection (7) Bank erosion is undermining the road. The depth of the erosion is not bad, but may still cause threat to life or property. Here an automobile could lose control if it has a tire drop-off along the road edge.

38. Road Protection (8) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? No

39. Road Protection (8) Bank erosion is about to undermine the road and is an imminent threat. The site is not an exigency since the erosion has not begin removing parts of the road and making the road more dangerous.

40. Road Crossing (1) • Eligible? • O&M ? • Design Flaw? • Nothing in manual for design flaws Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes No Immediate Threat?

41. Road Crossing (1) The erosion around the does not appear to be an O&M only problem and thus, potentially eligible. • Eligible? • O&M ? • Design Flaw? • Nothing in manual for design flaws

42. Channel – Waste Treatment Facility (1) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? No

43. Channel – Waste Treatment Facility (1) The head cut in the second picture working back to the waste treatment facility embankment. It is eligible for the program, but is not an exigency due to the embankment not receiving direct damage from the head cut.

44. Channel – Personal Property (1) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? Yes Immediate Threat? No

45. Channel – Personal Property (1) The site is eligible due to the bank erosion and the threat to adjacent property from the next event. However, the danger to the structures from another small event is low so it would not be exigent. However, the dart team may need to review quickly due to channel depth and soil type.

46. Channel – Personal Property (2) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? No

47. Channel – Personal Property (2) The stream bank erosion has gone so far that there is nothing to protect. The structure should be condemned and thus no remaining benefits for the work.

48. Channel – Personal Property (3) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? No

49. Channel – Personal Property (3) The stream bank erosion has gone so far that there is nothing to protect. The structure should be condemned and thus no remaining benefits for the work.

50. Channel – Other (1) Erosion based? Yes Threat to life or property? Yes Potentially Eligible? No