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Meeting Notes 9/27/2024

Fran Kremer, Jim Goodrich, Sudhir K, Jacob S

  • Region 5 is well tied into this kind of work.

  • They were planning to work with 5 originally bc they have so much GIS data. On pause.

  • Region 3?

  • Hi prio rivers for Region 5?

  • A lot of information in the CWA slides Fran showed us

  • Ask if we can get a copy of that slide deck?

  • Streamstats + IC Waters vs Streamstats + the RSMS model

  • They seemed interested in collaborating

  • Streamstats is already national, could help support the national aspirations

  • CLoud based API (easier to connect to )

  • Even though OH River is mostly Region 4, could be interesting to Region 5 folks just because of the big spills/leaks that have been happening (styrene most recently)

  • FY 25 for Jim

  • FY 26 for Fran

  • No funds before then...

  • Region 5 is doing all their GIS work internally, so they don't need the funding for it.

  • Maybe they can raise to CESER management? ORD/security folks don't care.

  • Work with DoD in developing tool to find applicability for their needs?

  • Same for USACE? They might not have funding, but could be a good partner.

  • Navy? They have a lot of "AST"s.

  • A call with Faith & Peter (USGS) would be helpful.

  • NOAA - Coastal impacts. Surges going upstream.

  • Fran will send a note to her Region 3 contact (working with IC Water), cc Jim, to bring them into the conversation. Will set up a call. Both the people she has been contacting (philly) and the folks we worked with (i.e. DRBC).

  • Our DRBC work is relevant. Where the River model runs into DRBC's 3D estuary model.

  • That was with Region 3.

  • Look into utilities, like AM Water. Different MOUs with various orgs,

  • Just have to find the right people

To sudhir only

  • Can there be any funding from lawsuits against Spill people? The train company, or chemical * transporters that leak, etc.

  • The company that just brought down the baltimore bridge? (probably unrelated, but I don't know how any of this stuff fits together....)