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4. Detailed floodplain analysis in the lower Amazon area: The city has funded a <br /> contracted detailed study of the floodplain in the lower Amazon area (bounded by SPRR, <br /> Barger, Terry and Greenhill). A detailed study is desirable to provide accurate data for <br /> new development. The city proposes to involve this study in scoping the necessary <br /> detailed analysis. The resulting information will be used to identify and design <br /> restoration measures. In addition, a flood insurance study for the Federal Emergency <br /> Management Agency (FEMA) has been conducted within the Amazon basin. As part of <br /> this study, areas subject to flooding out to the 100 -year flood event have been identified. <br /> The FEMA detailed study stops short of the subject area; further westward and northward <br /> the floodplain is designated an "approximate A zone ". Construction of the Lower <br /> Amazon Section 1135 project has likely increased the storage capacity of the system <br /> within the protected wetland area. The City is conducting a floodplain analysis to <br /> determine the new floodplain boundaries as a result of the influence of this 1135 project. <br /> The city is directing in -kind services in the form of a $50, 000 contract with Pacific Water <br /> Resources for modeling work on the lower Amazon, which will inform this study's plan <br /> formulations in the reaches below the 1135. <br /> 5. Willow Creek restoration. <br /> Willow Creek is a major sub -basin of the Amazon basin. There is significant <br /> downcutting and erosion on the east fork up and downstream of Gimpl Hill Road. Causal <br /> factors of this are not thoroughly understood, and the potential for restoration here is <br /> suspected to be high. Additionally, the relationship to parks and open spaces planning <br /> objectives are strong (with potential for achieving recreational benefits). Property <br /> ownership is an attractive mix of private and public (Nature Conservancy, City and <br /> BLM). This study task is to take a closer reconnaissance to determine whether there is a <br /> stand alone project here that we could proceed on a faster track. <br /> City's in -kind services: $5, 000 staff time to work with Corps to determine whether a <br /> separate project is appropriate and strategize how to proceed. <br /> 6. "Goal 5" ESEE analysis. <br /> This is a required land use planning analysis of the environmental, social, economic and <br /> energy consequences of protecting (or not) natural resource sites on the city's adopted <br /> inventory. Much of this inventory is associated with the water resources described in the <br /> 905b report and other prior study documentation. The analysis got underway as this <br /> study was beginning its feasibility phase, under the leadership of the city's Planning & <br /> Development Department (PDD). This effort will aid the study in establishing multiple - <br /> objective metrics and confirming the inventory of important resources. It would provide <br /> key building blocks for understanding how the study should formulate its protection, <br /> restoration, or land -use development recommendations, and assure we apply perspectives <br /> tuned to the priority issues /waterways and the watershed dimension. Financial /economic <br /> analysis is slated to follow the ESEE analysis. <br /> 7 <br />