 Give the floor to the people that were flooded. I know maybe some other residents might have some questions or some comments, but I thought we would give them the floor. So that's all. Yeah, and definitely, you know, we can stick around and answer questions, you know, if you have time or, you know, we can always. Always reach out afterwards and I don't want to cut everybody off. Just I don't want to, you know, go 2 hours and you know, I, I called this meeting for the people, you know, so they could have. Some information from me also anyways. Okay, that's it. Definitely. I did want to my name is Jennifer Dyke. So I'm this program manager and 1 of the interim 80s in transportation and public works department over 4 water streets and right away. So that's who I am. I do want to introduce Anthony Rojas who's here with us today. And I think he wanted to say a few words. He is council woman back district director Anthony. How you doing? Can we all right talk a little louder? All right. I'm going to talk a little louder. My name is Anthony. I'm a council woman. Elizabeth back district director. She was she wanted to just let me let y'all know that she's apologizing that she couldn't be here. She had prior. Commitments to attend to, but just want to let you know that we're listening to you on we're here. I'm going to take notes and be here for if you'll have any questions or comments. So we're going to your office. So we appreciate you all coming out. We're listening and we're going to we're going to do do everything we can from our office to help you out. Thanks, Anthony. We also have our transportation and public works director Lauren prayers here today. So if you want to wave Lauren. Everyone can see you. Good to see you for coming virtually. So we've got a lot of other city staff today and just to help in terms of there's questions. We really wanted to have the experts available to y'all today. So I'm not going to go through and try to introduce everybody. But, but they might chime in potentially during the Q and A. And also, you don't have to just listen to me today. I've got 3 others. Our assistant director of planning and data analytics, Stephen Nichols, our engineering manager from stormwater development services in the development services department and Claire Davis, our floodplain administrator. Well, I'll be talking with you today. So, so you won't get tired of my voice. Just kind of real quick. Try to put yourself on mute and and we'll hold all the Q and a at the end just so we can kind of get through the information so everyone can kind of hear the same thing. Before they start asking questions or making comments, just because it's I know it's so easy to talk over each other in virtual meetings. Oh, with that, let me see if I can figure out how to switch. Okay. So, yeah, kind of like what Anthony said, I just wanted to let y'all know that we have been listening to your concerns. From the recent rain event, we really wanted to share this information about the drainage system today, what we've been doing out there and what we're looking at in terms of the future. And also just mentioned to that myself and several from our store, modern team. I know Claire was there. Our former director or 80 was have been presented to Linwood in the past. So, back in October, 2015, March, 2017 and November, 2018. And so y'all are a great neighborhood. Y'all have always been very active. And so it's good to see everyone again, but it is unfortunate. The reason why we're here today. So. So, kind of with that, I kind of thought, let's let's put the question up front. Actually, this was like our communications person's idea. Don't make them sit to the end and know your conclusion. And so I know everyone saying, you know, what's the city going to do about this and when and so kind of just to be straight. We wanted to put this slide up front and say, there really isn't a simple, easy solution to mitigate the flooding out there. It's really going to take significant funding project phasing to mitigate what's happening in the Linwood area. And we've got areas like this all across the city with very, very similar circumstances. And so what we're going to do right now is we're going to be continuing to maintain the existing drainage network. We know the area is highly flood prone. So we want to maintain it in a way that it can take that water to the best of its ability. We're also, we've been rehabilitating the drainage system over the last couple years and we've got another project in place. We're going to be working on that. And then we're also developing or reviewing our existing development regulations. So we're working to identify potential refinements to our criteria to see what's warranted to better protect our community from flooding. And then also we'll talk about coming up kind of what we've evaluated today. We're going to continue looking at options out there looking at opportunities for partnerships and parcel acquisition that could potentially be used for stormwater detention to mitigate flooding. And I talked with council woman back about the flooding and we'll be continuing to have those discussions with council. So kind of just big picture. And then we'll kind of talk through all of this, but I wanted to kind of put that up front. So everyone kind of knows where we're going with this. I thought it was good just to do a really short program overview. So y'all understand who you're talking with. We're from the stormwater program. So our mission is to protect people in property from harmful stormwater runoff. So we're really a life safety focused program and stormwater program. The utility was actually created by city council in 2006 to establish a dedicated source of funding to address stormwater and flooding needs across the city of Fort Worth. So our program has 4 primary functions. We maintain our existing drainage system of pipes and channels. We mitigate flooding and erosion hazards through capital improvements and since we don't. Unfortunately, we don't have enough resources. Just like everyone else at the city flood warning is really important part of our program. So we warn the community of flooding and erosion hazards through our mapping program and also through our high water warning system flashers. You see one of the flashers up on the screen. And then we also review development for compliance with city standards really focused on making sure the new development that goes in doesn't flood and it doesn't aggravate the flood risk of existing development. Our fiscal year, 23 budget recommended budget is roughly $53 million and the budget is mostly from stormwater utility fees that property owners in the city pay if they have impervious surface on their property. As you can see, we spend a significant amount of money on infrastructure maintenance, which also includes storm drain rehabilitation. So really trying to proactively go out there and identify. Where this aging storm drains need rehabilitation before sinkholes happen. So it's a big life safety issue. There was 1 a few years back at the Carol Carol area. So, yeah, I can see. I think some of y'all might remember that. So, in addition to to storm and rehab, other big high priority capital project needs are associated with channel rehabilitation, flooding and erosion hazard mitigation. And we're also funding some funding to assist with the core's central city flood control project that the core and the Tarrant regional water district are working on. And then that debt slice, I just to mention that because it's pretty big. So that actually pays for revenue bond our annual payments for our bond and all that debt was issued in support of accelerating capital project delivery. In 2019 city council actually approved a fee increase for the storm water utility fee is 6.5% increase. It took effect January 2020 and it gave us the ability to issue. Additional debt and launch kind of a 5 year bond program really focused on capital project delivery. So we issued the 1st, 54 million in November 2020 and we plan to issue 44.5 million next year. So, this pie chart on the slide just shows where that money is going in terms of our highest capital project priorities. And as you can see here, mitigating hazardous road over topping locations at streams and channels is our highest priority because of the life safety involved. So, in 2018, we had, unfortunately, 4 fatalities in the city of Fort Worth at channel crossings where the channel came out of the bank across the road and push people's cars off into the channel. So, that's really our highest program priorities you can see here and then drainage pipe rehabilitation to is another high priority because of the sinkholes and the dangers that can happen from there. And we've done actually several projects in the liquid area that Claire will mention in a few minutes. Now, I wanted to talk a little bit about the rain events. I know it's been in the news a lot. So, kind of to share for assist graphic here shows the cast the radar. Estimates for the duration of the storm event. So, kind of, it went over kind of late August 22nd or 21st and then 22nd kind of that morning. So, kind of over the little over 24 hour duration. And so, as you can see here, kind of this pink and red area, this is kind of where the, the most rainfall was estimated to fall based off of the radar. So, between 7 to 8 inches of rain in those pink and red areas. And then what you see here is while radar estimates or while the radar is an estimate of the rainfall, this, these dots on the screen are actually rain gauge data and so they're much more accurate than the radar and so these are at city of Fort Worth rain gauges that we have spread across the city and so you can really see here over the duration of the rain event. And then the rain event, the amount of rain that fell and so kind of in that central city area, you see, we've got those 3 gauges that all measured over 8 inches during for the, for the duration of the storm event. And then we've got this bar chart here. This shows the 24 hour rainfall recorded at city of Fort Worth rain gauges for the storm event. And the red bars are the new 24 hour maximum records set for this specific storm for the specific gauge location. And so the blue bars are the maximum 24 hour record rainfalls that weren't exceeded for this event. So they're past records that have set and they're, they haven't been broken yet. So as you can see here, this was a pretty significant rainfall across the city of Fort Worth. These lines here show in terms of the 25 year and the 50 year event and 100 year event. And so I just kind of highlighted the Bryson, Hewlin rain gauge on here, which is, is not too far from y'all. And so that registered for the 24 hour duration and over a 50 year event. So it's, it's a lot of rain that was received. So, so even though there was a lot of rain received, I wanted to talk about kind of the storm itself. So the rainfall is, as y'all probably all remember, it wasn't continuous over the course of the event. And so we had a consultant looking into the rain gauge data a little bit more to understand what happened and basically for the Linwood area, we feel like that it was really hit with kind of 2 back to back roughly 5 year events. Over the whole longer duration storm event. And so Claire is going to talk about flood risk mapping in a few minutes and put that up on the screen. And point out that the 5 year flood risk map that we have is very similar in depth and extent to what Linwood seemed to experience based on our review of photographs from the community members. So the 5 year event has a 20% chance of occurring in any given year in any given location. So the amount of rainfall is really. It's not too common, but it, but it is something that's not a rare event. Definitely. And that it does happen in the city, Fort Worth area. So the flood mapping that Claire will show in a few minutes also shows that the flooding was really due to the size of the existing drainage system, not the rain event itself. And so, so he'll talk a little bit about the capacity of the drainage system. And in relate to the system functions how it works in terms of the Trinity River system. So the Linwood area outfalls to the Trinity River system and the river elevation was low enough. So the system should have been able to drain through the flop gates into the river. So that's kind of what we really try to get a better understanding of what happened in the Linwood area. During the rain event, so this map shows just the flooding that was reported over the duration of the storm across the city of Fort Worth. So as you can see here, it was a pretty significant event over, over 50 homes across the city flooded over 237 vehicles. A lot of police and fire calls and a lot of that was really focused on the central city of Fort Worth. And you can kind of remember the radar to and those rain dots where we're over. Oh, I guess the central city had over a 50 year event for our rain gauges. Also, I wanted to talk about the drainage pipe check that we performed before and after the rain event. So, knowing this area was highly flood prone and had flooded recently. We did go and look at the inlets on Bristol, Templeton and Windgate on August 19th in advance of the event to really make sure that they weren't clogged and they were ready for the rainfall. And then after the rain event, we went out there again. We didn't see any clogs, but we wanted to put cameras through the system because we really wanted to make sure because the flooding was so significant. We wanted to make sure there wasn't a clog like further down through the drainage pipes. So, on August 29th and 30th, we went out there. We camera in Templeton, Bristol and West 5th Street, and we didn't find any clogs. And so that really did help confirm too that the impact of the rain was really there. The flooding was really a cause by the capacity of the drainage system itself. So, there wasn't a clog or anything that we found. And 2, just to point out, drainage system capacity problems are really common across Fort Worth, especially in the central city, because these areas were developed before our more modern drainage standards that we have today. So, with that, I wanted to hand it off to Eric Flattaker, our assistant director of planning and data analytics. And so Eric, I'm going to have to control this for you to just kind of tell me when to advance. Okay, that'll work. Thanks, Jennifer. And thank you everyone for participating in this. This meeting and, you know, obviously lots of impact out there. And, and obviously, I'll have a lot of concern about it. So. I just wanted to walk through a little bit of just information about the area and a little bit about sort of the long range planning for the area zoning. I'm in the planning and data analytics departments and we're responsible for the city's long range plan, the comprehensive plan. And, and some urban village development type things. We work with our development services department and those of the folks that actually review development applications. And, you know, issue building permits to inspections, things like that. So. I just wanted to start by showing the, the 2003 aerial. So this is. Before the West 7th urban village was designated it's before. Certainly before the Linwood area was redeveloped. And what you can see is that there is a lot of development there. So, in 2003, before redevelopment began to take place. There were a lot of buildings already on the site. A lot of those buildings have been removed and replaced by by other newer buildings. But this is an area that as Jennifer was describing really has a history of some flooding issues. And, you know, has been developed for for quite a long time. Next, I just wanted to show you a zoomed in view of the same map. This is still 2003. This is still before redevelopment really took hold what you see is the park in the center. And essentially the Linwood neighborhood as that existed in 2003 surrounding it. You can see the streets Carol is on the the East, Weisenberger at the north. And then universities over on the West side. So what you see is is essentially a single family neighborhood. There was pretty much fully developed at that time. A lot of those houses were were purchased by investors over over a period of time. And ultimately became the focus of redevelopment efforts. Led in part by the development community itself and and in some part the property owners as well. There were a lot of. A lot of rental units out in this area, but a lot of these homes were there for quite a long time before 2003 as well. Next. So, this is what the hundred year floodplain looks like overlaid onto that map. So you can begin to see where the hundred year floodplain impacts are. And again, this is FEMA's hundred year floodplain. You'll hear more about. Some additional analyses that the city has done recently. That will show an extension of this, but this is this is sort of what the regulatory floodplain. Area currently looks like and this is the 2003 version. The floodplain hasn't changed, but we'll show you the more recent development. In a moment, next. Okay, so moving to 2022. This is what the area looks like right now. This is sort of a this view is giving you really the context of the area. You can still see. Saddle ball park there in the center and the development around West 7th. The parks are indicated in the green. And you can see the train or a relocation. Etc. Next, so this is the same 2022 aerial image, but we've zoomed in here to the Linwood area itself. And you can see again, parking center, you can see that the. In in a lot of those lots, the rooftops that were single family homes have been replaced now by. A variety of housing types, you know, town homes and so forth. The apartment complex over there next to the 1st light park is visible. So, you can see that there's been a lot of infill development that has occurred since 2003. And it continues to occur. Next, so this is the same 100 year floodplain image overlaid off to that area. So that gives you a sense of. Where the FEMA under your floodplain is located with respect to the redevelopment activity that's taken place. As well as the older structures that still are there. Next, okay, so this is the city's future land use maps. So this is a component. Of the comprehensive plan of the city, which looks forward 20 years. And covers a wide variety of things that the city does and the city's activities. Really, it's intended to serve as a guide for growth and development in the city of Fort Worth. Looking out 20 years and in some cases beyond. It is a map that we use these color codes for. The color coding that you see, there's a lot of pink here that bright pink color. That is mixed use. So mixed use is a future land use map designation. That identifies areas that we expect and and intend for a variety of development types to occur. A variety of uses to be present and really be focused on walkable neighborhoods. So. Walkability is key. It's a higher level of design. So the building designs themselves. You know, tend to have more enhancements to them. They address the street more directly. They create a pedestrian oriented. Place and as residents of the area, I'm sure that you're. You know, that's one of the things that you like about it is you've got quick access to a variety of different destinations in the area. You've got. It's it's a pretty walkable place. The design is is pretty advanced in that area. So this serves as as a guide for development. It's actually implemented by the zoning map. The zoning ordinance is how the city actually controls development. And the expectation is that the zoning map will be implementing the future land use plan, which is what you're seeing right here. So, again, the pink is mixed use. Oops. Not having the bright yellow color that you see as you might guess is single family residential. The green obviously is is parks and open space with cemetery is that bright red is. Is general commercial so really expected to be a type of commercial activities that serve a wider area. That's you'll see our dealerships and things like that in those locations. That that purple color that you see up near the. River is industrial, so that's a light industrial category that's. Intended to provide locations for. You know, sort of light manufacturing for. You know, some warehousing activities, things of that sort. But in the center around that soundable part green that you see. There is a sort of cross hatch of a yellow and a brown color. That is urban residential so residential is a. Feature land use map designation that's adopted as part of the conference of plan. And what this identifies is a location where we anticipate a variety of housing. Options to be present anything from single family homes through duplexes, triplexes, townhomes. Small apartment buildings and up to larger apartment buildings as well. In the future land use designation is is allowing for that mix of residential activity. To take place in same area in a walkable pedestrian friendly area. And it is not, you know, it doesn't specifically support commercial activity. It's really intended to be a residential district next. So, Eric, someone asked what the light pink is when explain what the light pink is while we're on that slide. Oh, okay. Sure. Certainly there's not a whole lot of it. So I didn't mention that, but that is neighborhood commercial. So the bright red is general commercial. The light pink is neighborhood commercial neighborhood commercial is. Intended for commercial service retail activities that. They're really are focused on serving the neighborhood as opposed to serving a broader area of the city. And since you brought up things that I didn't mention. There is some orange that you see west of the park. And that is low density residential. So that's really intended for. Sort of duplexes and town homes that that kind of development not intended for apartment complexes. The brown that you see up in the northwest of the map is medium density residential. And that is intended to accommodate apartment complexes. Okay, so this is the zoning map. So this is a component of the city's zoning ordinance. This is a regulatory document. It identifies the types of uses that you're allowed in each of these different categories. It is focused primarily on the use of property. So is it is a retail? Is it residential? Is it an industrial use? It, and what you're seeing here really is in large part of a remnant of conventional zoning. The bright pink that you see is still that mixed use, which is not really conventional zoning. It's more along the lines of a form based design oriented zoning classification. But a lot of the rest of these, you see the letters that go with the zoning categories, as well as the colors. So B zoning is again shown in that in that light orange color. B zoning is two family zoning. So it allows duplexes. It does allow single family residences as well, but it doesn't allow commercial activity, industrial activity, larger apartment complexes. It is specifically to accommodate single family and duplexes. Again, that brown C color C is our multifamily zoning for sort of middle density. And that's what that brown color is showing. So again, it accommodates apartment complexes. It can also accommodate sort of lower intensity residential uses as well. And you can see that around the sandable park area where Linwood proper is located. There's kind of a mix of things. Some of that is a similar cross hatch with yellow and brown coloring. And that is our urban residential zoning district. So we have urban residential as a future land use map designation for planning purposes, and also for zoning for actual regulation of development activity purposes. So the J, the K, those purple colors that you see that's industrial. J is sort of medium intensity, industrial K is heavier intensity. The PDs that you see that have a cross hatch color of their own are our planned developments. So they are a modified version of the underlying zoning category, often stipulating uses that are not allowed, sometimes stipulating some development standards as well, but often focused primarily on uses that are not allowed in the district. So the PD that you see there immediately east of Sandable Park is a gray and pink coloring cross hatch. And that is showing that it's planned development, but it's based on mixed use zoning. That's where that pink is showing through. So that's kind of a quick tour of the zoning map. It includes development standards like setbacks, like building heights, things like that that regulate how you place development on the site. And as building permits come in, they need to meet more than just the zoning standards. They need to meet other city standards, including standards related to flood plan and flood control. Next. So this is a zoomed in version, and specifically highlighting that urban residential, you are zoning category. And you can see a little bit more clearly here where it's that cross hatch of yellow and sort of a brownish color. You can see that there's a lot of B zoning that exists as well, that sort of light orange color that for single family homes and duplexes. You can see the light pink E is a designation for neighborhood commercial development in our zoning ordinance. And we talked about I and J is different levels of intensity for industrial uses. C is that apartment designation that has its own development standards. And we recently modified the development standards for C zoning and D zoning, which you don't see any here. But those two apartment complex type zoning districts, we've modified to be more similar to urban residential residential in that they discourage large parking lots in front of the buildings. They bring the buildings closer to the street to help create a more pedestrian oriented place. And of course, we talked about mixed use that pink color. We have two designations of mixed use. We have MU one, which is our low intensity district. And we have MU two, which is a higher intensity district. Again, with the focus being on design of the buildings, pedestrian orientation. So highly walkable neighborhoods is what we're trying to build with that zoning category. It provides a lot of housing choice. So you can anything from really a single family home all the way up to an apartment and pretty much everything in between. And then it creates a transition of density. So urban residential is often seen near urban villages as sort of a transition between higher intensity uses and sort of standard single family, you know, low intensity, larger lot size development. So that's a quick tour of the site of planning that relates to it as well as zoning that relates to it. Thanks, Eric. I really appreciate that. I know there were some questions we received before the meeting for kind of this type of information. So that was really helpful, I think for for people who wanted to hear about that. So so now I think Stephen Nichols is going to talk to us about kind of the kind of flooding problem and development regulations. So Stephen, are you there? Stephen is our engineering manager in our stormwater development services and the development services department. All right. Good evening, everyone. So the area has a long history of flooding. So in the early 1900s and 1946 or seven, I believe, there was a flood from the Trinity River that reached, I want to say, maybe the second floor of the Montgomery Plaza building just for reference. And some of those floods are the reason that the US Army Corps of Engineers came in and constructed the levee system. And so looking through the reported flag information we have, it appears we've had some sort of flag incidents in the area every year or every other year since around 2014 based on the records I found. So some flooding in 2014, 15, 17, 19, and obviously 20 to make two. So there is a large drainage area that contributes to the Linnwood area. And parts of the West Side where they camp buoy and so the upstream area drain down and end up in the Linnwood and so the industrial and 7th Street area. And it gets very flat through there. And so similar to the roadway system, you can sort of see that there's a fairly steep topography coming down towards the area. And that flattens out just like 7th Street. It's very flat through there. The Linnwood Bayleys area, the terrain underlates a little bit, but it's still generally very flat. The systems that are there were built in the 1920s, well before we had sort of modern design standards. And those systems were generally considered to convey maybe less than the one year storm event. And so flooding is fairly frequent. When the Trinity River levee system went in, it stopped the river flooding that area, but also creates a barrier from the upstream runoff reaching the river effectively. So the combination of the levees being in place and the undersized storm drain systems creates a situation where there's an effect of what we call a sump condition in that area. And you can sort of think of a sump as being something like a bathtub. Basically the water goes in and has trouble escaping. So in order to prevent the river flooding up through the storm drain systems behind the levee, there are flap gates which close when the river is high, but remain or should remain open when the river is low and allow storm water runoff to leave this drainage system and exit into the river. Next slide, please. So new development has to imply the sea drainage standards. Most of our drainage standards apply when development is one acre or greater in size. We model our standards or actually adopt quite a few of our standards from the North Central Texas governments, sorry, regional governments. And they put together the ice room program maybe 15, 20 years ago now. And we originally adopted a lot of those standards in 2006. So new development does not have to fix existing flood problems, but they can't make it worse. The general principle that we follow is what we call diverse impact. And developments of one acre or more have to demonstrate through engineering analysis that they do not cause an adverse impact through the zone of influence. And just so briefly, the zone of influence is a concept around a very small project and a very big watershed probably doesn't have a significant impact. So for example, if there's a duplex being built, maybe up on Cambuy, they're not going to have to analyze down to say Montgomery Plaza to determine their impacts. The idea is that within an area around that development is where it has the most impact. So for example, a neighbor is most likely to be impacted. But once you go a quarter mile, half mile away, then the impacts are somewhat unmeasurable. And so the developments that we do review, they have to demonstrate that there's not an increase in peak runoff. Or if there is an increase in peak runoff, then there's available capacity for that. They also need to demonstrate there's not increase in flood depths on houses, for example. And they also need to show that they're not increasing erosion risk. Next slide, please. Okay, so we review a lot of developments over an acre, but we don't review all developments. The ones that we do look at are anything within a finger flood plain that requires a permit. That's part of the city's participation in the NFIP. We review, again, anything over an acre. We review compliance and development over an acre. So that's where you have multiple developments of multiple phases under the same common developer or landowner. And we look at that as one development. We also review all plaques. We review a bunch of other development applications, but I won't go into those right now. So some of the things we check for, we expect that where there's a flood risk, that building finish falls, we set two feet above the 100-year flood risk. Within the limwood sump, for example, again, I mentioned it's kind of like a bathtub. So where a development is working in the flood plain, we expect it to provide compensatory volume for that. So for example, if they put in a cubic foot of dirt into the flood plain, we expect them to find or excavate a cubic foot somewhere else within the flood plain to make sure that overall that flood elevation doesn't go up or down. It's probably worth knowing at this point that the FEMA flood plain in that area is a fairly simple volumetric approach. So it kind of looks at if we have a 100-year storm within that watershed, we know what that volume will be, and if we place that volume behind the levee, what does that flood plain look like? It doesn't really account for all the dynamic things that happen between the runoff staying at the top of the hill, up near Camp Bowie, and getting to the bottom of the hill at the outlet to the river. When we're looking at properties or developments, we make sure that they're not grading and constrain runoff towards the neighbors in such a way that cause impacts, and they're not allowed to increase runoff if there's no available capacity through reserve influence. So if we have development less than one acre, if they're not planting, they're not part of a comp plan, they're not in the FEMA flood plain, then those developments do not get reviewed from my team. Next slide, please. So for those developments less than one acre, there is no review, but even for developments over one acre, we do not look at the interim impacts. So for example, during construction, that there may be a time during that construction activity where the site is not fully mitigating the impacts because they're in the middle of installing all the infrastructure that they would need to mitigate impacts, for example, and we do not look at the total volume of runoff from a site. So we look at peak discharges and velocities, but we don't look at total volume. Next slide, please. So the streets are an important part of the drainage system. You know, the curb and gutter conveys runoff to inlets and inlets to storm drains, and then to channels and rivers and so forth. And at least since 1975, we've had criteria in a place that requires streets to convey the five-year storm at the top of the curb, and then the hundred-year storm within the public right away. So the idea there is that during a storm event, a fairly significant storm event, the street acts almost as an open channel in a way, conveying runoff to inlets and storm drains. And the goal is to keep the hundred-year storm event within the right away, which wouldn't in turn protect private property. So streets in Linwood, for example, that were built prior to these stands being in place, were not designed to those criteria, were not designed with those kinds of protections in mind. Next slide, please. Thank you, Stephen. I think at this point, Claire is going to talk. Davis is our floodplain administrator and talk a little bit more about the drainage area and flood risk using our aerials. Good evening, everybody. As Jennifer said, I'm the floodplain administrator for the city, and you can probably imagine I'm quite familiar with Linwood. So I've been working with development in this area for basically my whole career here with the city. And when Stephen mentioned development in the floodplain and the offsetting volumes of fill material, that's basically the type of thing that we've been regulating in the Linwood area, in the team of floodplains at least. On this slide here, you can see four drainage basins. These are all four separate basins that have their own storm drainage systems, but at some point or another, they all contribute to flooding that's kind of within the Linwood and the Bayleys area that's north and south of White Settlement and generally east of University Boulevard there. You can see Linwood Park is generally in the middle here in the green shape. And then around the perimeter on the east and the north side, there's this the system of levees that Stephen also mentioned. Those are the systems that protect the neighborhood and the area from flooding from the Trinity River from the Clear Fork or the West Fork Trinity, but they do create that standing water situation when the Trinity River is high. Next slide, please. So here we've got, and this is the storm drain system that exists in these different drainage basins. You can see that some of them are quite long over in the Monticello area. They reach from all the way nearly to Camp Buoy and then drain out towards the West Fork on the west side of the cemetery there. And then as you get into the more commercial and heavier residential area of Linwood and the Bayleys area, you've got a lot of storm drains that are on a very regular grid. Those generally follow the streets wherever they can and they typically drain on the, I guess on the Bayleys side, they drain to the north into the West Fork Trinity where you can see the blue circle on the north. And then the Linwood area and the kind of West 7th all drains back to the east towards, generally towards Forest Park as an outfall to the Trinity River there, the Clear Fork Trinity there. And you can tell that this is a complicated drainage system. There are places where the storm drain systems go uphill and downhill and there's even places where the system is kind of crossed back and forth into each other. So it's definitely a very complicated drainage system. And as you can see in the little table here, these are the dates that some of these systems were installed. You go from the 1970s all the way back to the 1920s. And a lot of that work was done in the 40s and the 1970s timeframe. So we've got older systems out there. Some of them are generally made to the relative current standards, but a bunch of them are much older. And like Stephen noted, they just don't carry the amount of water that we would be requiring a storm drain system to carry these days. Next slide, please. We do work really hard to keep these storm drain systems in the best possible condition we can. If we're not able to replace the system, we want to make sure that it's as functional as it can be per the design that it was constructed to. And we've really paid a lot of attention to the Linnwood and Bailey's area. The condition of the storm drain system in Linnwood, about seven miles of pipe out there was evaluated in 2020. We did a CCTV evaluation out there that Jennifer mentioned. The result of that was that there are several high priority storm drain projects to be constructed out here. We've got Post Street from West 7th to West 6th completed in 2020. And then from West 6th to West 5th was completed in 21. So those are the newest that we've got out there. And then also from the intersection of Post and Azalea to 196 West Post Street completed in 2021 as well. Weisenberger had a system updated from Adrian Street to Curry completed in 2021. And then our rehab program is planned for Merrimack from Mercedes Avenue to Carroll Street and from Carroll Street to Merrimack to West 5th. That's currently out to bid and hoping to go to construction in summer of 2023. Next slide, please. On this slide, we've got the FEMA flood planes that we've mentioned a couple of times. The blue lines are the stream center lines that we have mapped. Those are ones that are either the trend into river or older stream systems that are out there. You can tell that there's just not a lot of streams in the Baileys or Linnwood area. The general trend back in the day was to put pipes where the existing streams were and then pave over the top of those that you have more usable land to develop and just get more use out of. It could have been residential or commercial. The theme was let's cover up the old streams and put pipes in there to carry the water away to keep it from being a nuisance. And so what you end up with is no streams really left where there used to be streams. However, the slope of the land knows where the stream used to be. That tends to be where the water will flow when the smaller pipes overflow and run over land. Next slide, please. This is what I was talking about earlier when I mentioned that these drainage basins, they may be separate basins now, but when they start to overflow, they all start to head towards the Baileys and Linnwood area. And so you've got over here on the west on the left side, you've got that drainage system that comes out of Monticello. That storm drain system is overwhelmed and then it collects down there off of White Settlement and then will eventually run through the cemetery and then it will cross University and into the Linnwood area. So that's one area that's got a kind of a cross flow path. And then you got additional drainage coming from the south draining towards the north. This is all part of what we found when we had a basin wide drainage study that was completed from 2016 to 2017. We really wanted to look more closely at what the flood risk out there were so that we can start evaluating alternatives to see what mitigation costs and options were going to be. And again, the FEMA floodplain is in the purple with our study floodplain in the blue. And one good way to kind of look at the purple floodplain in the Linnwood area is this, like Steve mentioned, it's basically bath sub water. It's standing still. It's water that collects at the bottom of the hill and then fills up the tub. The blue water is basically moving downstream and downhill from those higher areas to the west. And as it drains downhill towards Linnwood, it's more of a moving water situation. So it's got a different type of analysis to it than the FEMA type floodplain. And it also gives you kind of a more meaningful look at what those flood risks appear to be around this area. Next slide, please. As part of that study, we looked at different recurrence intervals of storms. This, we started to add a little bit of a depth feature to the flood mapping that we've got. Again, purple is the FEMA floodplain. That's going to be an elevation of 537.3 at speed above sea levels, how we're measuring all this. And then kind of the more pixelated floodplains and drainage with the blue and orange and red, that's the one year or the 100% chance storm of every year. Every year, you expect to get the storm. The storm that you expect to get every year is going to collect and fill the streets up along the university and then down into the Templeton area and Merrimack. You can see some areas that are getting into the one to two foot depth kind of situation. Wherever you've got some of these intersections coming together where the water just can't get into the storm drain system, it's going to collect there and create a kind of a deeper flooding situation right there at those streets. Next slide, please. Again, this is another little more intense storm. This is a five year storm or a 20% chance of seeing that type of storm every year. And basically this is the storm that we saw experience on the 21st and 22nd. It's roughly a five year storm, but the flooding that you see is still pretty significant. There's depths that are more than three feet in some places, particularly along Templeton and then down on the Norwood on the south side of 7th Street. There's significant flooding down there as well. This is just the way these undersized storm drains function. If there's not enough pipe capacity to get the water out to the river, and if the river is also that could contribute to some reduced capacity in the storm drain system because water is basically trying to push other water out of the way to get down to the river. And that's the kind of thing that we saw. Next slide, please. And then this is what the storm is that we base all of our designs on. This is what we call the 100 year storm or you've heard it called that probably. It's really just a one percent chance occurring every year. All of your FEMA storms are based on this one percent chance storm and that's what they base all their insurance requirements on. But again, you can see it's just a greater and greater spread of water. And it's now starting to match up pretty well with the FEMA flood plain as it gets down to these kind of lower flatter areas. Just a much wider spread of water. You've got more water in the three to five foot depth in some locations. And this is just water that's basically moving from west to east as it crosses over university from the west and then down into this area, which is the lowest spot before it gets to the river. Next slide, please. Okay. Thank you so much, Claire. So I'm going to talk a little bit now about kind of what we've looked at in terms of mid long range term, what could be done based off our evaluation. So as Claire said, we mapped the flood risk out there. We had a consultant come in. We wanted to do a good, get a good understanding of the flood risk so we could figure out what to do about it. So before we came up with the detailed mapping, we actually had a planning workshop in 2014 that included city staff consultants and infill developers to really talk about ideas to mitigate the flooding out here. So this resulted in a high level conceptual plan first that identified four ways to mitigate the flooding. So these brown, brown lines are storm drain improvements. And then the pink areas are storm water detention basins. So based off of the amount of runoff, we were estimating around the 35 acres would be needed to detain storm water. The green could be talked about. We could actually just take the street and turn it into channels and then kind of develop along the channel. So they'd be kind of like a green way development to get the water out. And then lastly, you see here a pump station. So Stephen and Claire talked about the levee system and how the levees keep the river from impacting the local drainage system. But then when the river is up really, really high, it also keeps the local drainage system from draining into the river. So ultimately a pump station could be needed if the river is high enough up and the storm drain system also is high at the same time. So back when this was looked at in 2014, 2015 timeframe, this was estimated to cost around $75 to $150 million. This is all very high level planning. So then we brought in another consultant to look at that area in detail to do the detailed engineering and mapping and modeling. And what they came up with was one of the alternatives was to really kind of focus on this urban village area, the Norwood Crockett area. And to put in, it basically replaced these existing undersized lines with water lines to bring the water all the way out to the Trinity River. And so this was estimated to cost between $15 and $20 million. And so this really kind of benefits the urban village, but I'll show you on the next slide, it actually has benefits too to the Linwood neighborhood area. And then to facilitate this type of improvement in the future, when the Trail Drive Road was constructed through the Farrington Filt area in 2018, we actually added a drainage culvert underneath the road. So after we did some more detailed evaluations of this area, we found out we couldn't run the line down Lancaster because there were some utility conflicts. And so we would need to run the line a little bit down into the Farrington Field property. And so we wouldn't have to recut open the brand new street, we actually put a culvert underneath it to facilitate the ability to build this line in the future if we had the resources for it. Also, I wanted to point out that in 2020, the city worked with Urban Land Institute and this was a workshop that Eric's team led to really try to work together the city of Fort Worth ISD on how this Farrington Field property could be potentially used or redeveloped in the future. And as a part of that effort, we shared flood mitigation information and needs for this area. And workshop conclusions did recognize the need for some kind of regional stormwater solutions and potentially how could it be incorporated into the design of this site. So we wanted to make sure that that was incorporated into their effort. So here's a screenshot showing the non-female flood risk that Claire had just talked about. So you've got the existing one-year results on the left. And if we put this storm drain line in and increase the size of the pipe, you can see that there's less flooding. So you can see in the urban village area, significant reduction here. You've got less colors and then two in the Templeton area. This is for the one-year event. So a very frequent rain event, you can see the significant difference here. So very beneficial to the Templeton area. And then this is for the 100-year event. So as you can see for the 100-year event, it still has really good benefits for the urban village area. It reduces the flooding so you see less color. But then once you get further north, up into the Templeton area, it doesn't have those benefits really because the pipe stops. It doesn't go all the way up there. And so because of that, we brought the consultant looked at another option. So this option here was really kind of focused on, okay, how can we how could we mitigate the flooding in this Linwood neighborhood area? And so they looked at adding in new storm drain pipes over in the Monticello area. And so Claire had talked about how the water is draining from the west to the northeast. And so once it gets to university, it's moving and a lot of it passes over, jumps over university and then goes into the Templeton area. So these storm drain pipes over here, the importance of them is that it is capturing that water and then taking it up university to the river before it can even get into the Templeton area. So it's keeping all that water off of Templeton. So Templeton is just kind of having to manage their own water. And then too, adding new storm drain pipes in that Templeton area to connect to the line of university. So as you can see here, this would be a huge project estimated to be between $80-$90 million, a lot of street cuts, utility impacts and so forth. So this would have to be done in series of phases. If this was done starting at the very downstream end, so up along the Trinity River and then moving south. So we can't build the pipes at the upper end because they don't have anywhere to go. So you've got to start at the downstream end. So just if we did something like this, it would take time to actually get to the upper parts of the watershed to get that benefit. And so this just shows the existing flood risk down at the very bottom. So this is a hundred years on the FEMA flood risk for the area. And then this shows on the top, it shows the benefit of it. So this is for the hundred years. So still there's flood risk out there, but as you can see, much significantly reduced by a project like this. So we talked about long term, but short term, what could be done. So in terms of maintenance, I talked about maintenance earlier. We want to make sure that we're really maintaining the system to a high level knowing that this area is very flood prone and performing pre and post storm event checks to make sure it's performing to the best of its ability. I also wanted to kind of just let y'all know it's really important for residents to report to the to the city. If y'all see maintenance concerns, clogged inlets, or something that we should look at, you know, use my Fort Worth app or call the number and report that. And we can pretty quickly come out there and take a look. That's what we want to do. We want to catch it before it impacts anybody. Also the non-femal flood risk initiative is an effort that we've been working on with stakeholders over the last two years. It's really focused on improving communication of the non-femal flood risk through the mapping, just like Claire and I showed. And also through improved stormwater regulations in these areas where we've done the detailed engineering to understand the non-femal flood risks in detail. And so the mapping that Claire showed earlier is going to be added to the website, the city's website, this fall, as well as for other areas across the central city, several other parts of town, we're going to be adding that mapping as well. And we really want, of course, the residents and the developers to have this information so they can consider it early on in their decision making. Additionally, this fall we're going to be bringing recommendations to city council about floodplain ordinance and stormwater criteria manual updates to really improve small development regulations in these FEMA non-femal flood risk areas like Linwood that we have evaluated in detail. And then lastly, as mentioned earlier, we're going to be evaluating opportunities for partnerships and looking to see if there's parcels that could potentially be used for stormwater detention. We're also going to be considering if we should be, we have a meeting actually set up with the core of engineers in a few weeks to see about updating economic analysis that the core has done in the past. And so potentially if we update this, we could possibly use that data to help get federal funding to show the need and the impact of flooding for this area. We're also participating in the North Central Texas Council of Governments Integrated Transportation and Stormwater Management Initiative. So it's a mouthful. It's really an effort to, it's a regional study focused on areas kind of west of Fort Worth and the upstream areas that are developing right now. But the whole intention of the effort is to mitigate downstream flood risks from the new development and flood risks currently. So we really want to be participating in that group since it could have an impact downstream on communities like Lindwood. So kind of in conclusion, we've done this detail planning, we have a good understanding of the flood risk and what could be done to mitigate the risk. And then really, we need to consider that in terms of citywide priorities, partnership opportunities and resources. And so kind of big picture, the cost of these identified storm drain improvements in the near west side, it's just well beyond the scale of our storm water program. So as I showed earlier, we've identified over $100 million of needs to mitigate the flooding in this area. And in comparison, storm waters proposed five-year capital improvement program allocates roughly $122 million towards high priority capital projects. So we prioritize our funding based on risk considering citywide flooding problems with again a life safety focus. And so to put our budget into perspective a little bit more, the estimated funding needs to address our highest priority capital projects for mitigating hazardous road overtopping at creeks and channels, rehabilitating aging storm drain lines, mitigating flooding into homes and businesses, and restoring highly eroded drainage channels as well over a billion dollars as you can see on these high-level estimates on the screen. So with that in mind, the storm water utility fee is our main source of funding. We can issue storm water revenue bonds to pay for projects such as, so I guess, hold on. So we issue storm water revenue bonds based off of our storm water utility revenues. And so we can only issue enough bond funding based off of our revenue. The city uses general obligation bonds to pay for projects like street improvements, libraries, and police stations. But typically that funding is not used for storm water improvements since we have a dedicated fee source from our storm water utility fee. So future storm water utility fee increases and debt issuances is really what's needed to continue to accelerate the delivery of high priority capital projects. Our program routinely evaluates public and private partnerships. We really try to leverage our resources where we can to get as much done as possible. We also regularly look at grant funding opportunities to see if they're available for our priorities. And we have the two different alternatives that I mentioned earlier, those two storm drain lines. We've actually put those into the Texas Water Development Board's draft state flood plan. And so having them in the plan gives us the opportunity to potentially apply for some kind of funding in the future. So you have to have them in the plan to be able to apply for funding. So we wanted to make sure that they were there. So we had that opportunity potentially in the future. We also routinely evaluate FEMA, federal emergency management, and US Army Corps of Engineers funding opportunities. Lastly, there could be some kind of potential opportunity to form a special drainage district for this area to charge property owners or future developers additional fees to improve the drainage in this area. But that would require some more or some detailed evaluation involvement from our legal department. So just trying to throw out options here. So this is kind of the slide I said earlier. As mentioned again, there's not an easy solution to mitigate the flooding. And so really we're going to be continuing to maintain the existing drainage system. We're going to be continuing to take a look at our development regulations. As mentioned earlier, Stephen talked about we don't look at or we don't regulate stormwater runoff volume. And so that is one of the things that we're going to be looking at in terms of cumulatively the addition of more and more impervious surface across the city and how that impacts flooding and drainage to see should we be changing our development regulations with that in mind. And then again, we're going to be evaluating opportunities for partnerships and looking at parcels that could potentially be used for stormwater detention. So lastly, while we can only do so much at the city, I wanted to throw out things that residents can do. I know none of these things are really things that you want to hear because I know I don't want to hear them. But I think it's really important for the city to share them with you. So one is just we want everyone to understand what their flood risk is. So we send a lot of annual letters to flood prone areas. I know there's a lot of residents in this area that this should be getting an annual letter. We actually have one going out I think the end of this month. We also have information about flood risk on the city's one address website under the reference section. And if you have questions, you can email our floodplain team and we'll respond to questions as they come in. We also recommend flood insurance to property owners that are more at flood risk. So we can actually we do different actions at the city of Fort Orissa residents can get discounted flood insurance. So typically normal homeowners insurance does not cover flooding from like water coming up in like not a not a flooded water heater or something but from coming coming into the house. So flood insurance is a separate add-on option to your insurance that we do recommend. People can consider flood proofing or structure elevation for their homes I've talked with people before too that say you know they know it's flood prone on their street and they go and they move their car you know it's I know that's not ideal but I I've talked to people in different neighborhoods in the city that go and do that. And lastly I wanted to mention that we do have a severe weather alert app. Well we use the Code Red app in Fort Worth Texas alerts that residents can sign up to receive alerts for severe weather. So with that in mind I know this was a really long presentation I really appreciate everyone sticking around to to listen to it and so kind of at this time I wanted to take comments and I know Stacy you had mentioned earlier kind of that a few people who had actually flooded giving them kind of a chance maybe to talk or comment first. So I think if you could maybe try to do the raise your hand function and and Linda Stern on our team is going to be trying to facilitate the Q&A or the comment session. Jennifer we have a few comments in the chat if maybe we want to start as as the order that they appeared. Chris Butler and Pete shop had referred to ahead of the August 21st and 22nd rain event that the parenting center Pete had issues that night as well on the 17th. So just a comment on that. Right and there was that rain event right beforehand which made then soils even you know soils were saturated so that kind of even probably made that the next flooding a little bit worse but yes there was that the flooding event right beforehand. It's a good point. This is Dane Sinegan. I live at 407 Templeton Drive. As she mentioned I flooded three separate times. Obviously the Sunday Monday night flood which everyone flooded but also the the night of the 17th which is close to minus two inches of rain. I don't think any house should flood when it rains that much but I what I want to know is what are we going to do to remedy either you know do something in the meantime before these because all these big plans these grants that are proposed they're five plus years out there's needs to be something done on Templeton Drive specifically because you're ruining not only people's homes and their daily lives but it's also ruining the property values if it keeps doing this. You know we played twelve thirteen thousand dollars in property taxes a year. I think something needs to be done in the meantime. So I just kind of want to know if there is something to be done now to the drainage systems to mitigate the problem between the bigger fix of the issue. So that's kind of my two cents and I want to know if there is something to be done now to the problem. Yeah and as again you know there's not and there's not an easy fix so to do something now we would either need to have an amount of property that we could use for stormwater detention or to build pipes to take that water to the river. We are going to be taking a look to see you know is there available property that could be used for stormwater detention that's large enough to have benefits. So that is something that we will be looking at in the near future. Hi this is Dane, the other Dane. I'm next door neighbor with Dane that just asked. So kind of two things. I want to piggyback off what he said. I mean the day that we saw two inches of rain yet we're getting water in our house and it's over three feet above street level you know and looking at the maps and seeing that in three days you know three times in six days you know the the issue I mean it just seems like it's being Templeton's being used as a reservoir and for two inches of rain we shouldn't flood but it's all coming like you said across university you know two blocks east two blocks west you know I can walk there and when I'm getting to my house now it's up to my chest and I'm you know six foot three you know so I mean for the short term I mean I've heard some different different things we you know so you put you know in the storm drains that does not allow that water to cross over either like a blockage or something you know push it back the other way that can be a much you know a much more short term cost effective plan because the issue again isn't flooding and it isn't the rain it's us you know being used almost as a reservoir and that's coming from all these other streets and then just pooling outside of our house so that's my first question I'd like answered and the second is you know I mean is there any remedy remedies for Templeton Street alone for everybody that's happened to renovate their house you know possibly you know put in piers and lift it up because if there's no short-term solution and you know the next couple years I mean it's bound to happen again if we can get flooded from two inches of rain in a day sir I I agree with you I actually live behind you I'm on Wembury street the city redid Templeton a year ago and did not replace the drains so I'm a developer I know what's going on this has been a great presentation and they flooded us with stuff without telling us how they're going to fix it so and so I first wanted to in terms of the comment about you know can we put something up to block the water to stop it from coming over into the area so all of this is basically the natural flow path of the water and so we can't do a project that would block the water and stop the natural flow path because then we would just flood somebody else so that's part of our projects is we have to make sure that we're not just stopping the flooding or moving it to another part of town we just need to take it to an adequate outfall such as the Trinity River an area that has the capacity to hold that storm water but Jim Jim seriously you could have replaced those drain pipes they're on Templeton when you redid that you could have done that why why are you not accepting that that's what the issue is so I'll say is that I'm not familiar with the with the street project that was done but it wouldn't be enough just to improve the pipe right there in that one stretch of Templeton we'd have to take no I would no it would because what happened from Templeton that flooded my place that's what's happening so so another option potentially could be underground attention of course we have to look and see in terms of the capacity or what's underneath the street but that could be another option that we could take a look at and kind of you saying that you know if we if we did that it would stop you know it would go somewhere else where well you know I'm seeing other areas on this map that don't have any color yet ours has all the colors I mean then I mean it seems like we could do something to not not go flood another street intentionally as much I don't want my street flooded I would hate for this to happen to anybody else but you know there has to be in those areas that we're not seeing that and it's the natural flow of water there's got to be some some kind of solution you know and I'm not you know something worth looking into but there's got to be something from everything coming across university and from coming from Wimberley and from you know from every direction there's got to be one of those that we can pick you know to you know to backflow it the other way instead of it all coming to us to an area that does not have any color on that map so that hence they're not going to potentially flood it might you know it might get halfway up the driveway might be two feet but it wouldn't be five six feet like it was in my house well up to my house right and part of the problem is as Eric talked about is the area is highly developed and so we don't have a lot of space to do something like stormwater detention that could just capture all of that water and hold it until the drainage system can slowly release that water there well but well guess what that's the city's that's the city's job okay we're paying taxes for that and I love what my neighbor said that's what your that's what your job is different don't don't give us this crap this is Benny peak I also am on Templeton where we have a particularly acute problem of three sometimes four feet water people's cars have been destroyed it's been in our houses multiple times as dame dame said even last Wednesday with two inches of rain the the floods are getting into people's houses so I think we have a particular problem on Templeton and the one thing that I have not heard addressed in this presentation and so I think Claire did a great job of showing you know some things about the flooding you Jennifer did a good job the last little bit talking about some things but the one thing that I didn't hear mentioned is the fact that on Templeton the storm drains flow backwards in other words it's not just that there's runoff coming from the west across university down the side streets and adding from the runoff on Templeton it's also coming up in the middle of the street from the storm sewer itself but so it's it's it can't get out the other end it's stopped up and then water from other parts of the city is then flowing into the system and then up and out on Templeton which is making the problem much worse and so that's the majority of the problem I do think it's causing the problem to be multiple times as bad from having witnessed this with my own eyes I would say that it is the majority of the problem on Templeton's and I don't see it addressed in this presentation at all so I guess I'm just wondering are you aware that this is going on and if you are what's the plan to deal with that well said gentlemen the city is just trying to put a bunch of crap in front of us and not dealing with what they have to say I mean I agree with you I'm not happy about any of this but let's at least hear what they have to say so so we have seen your video actually and we and we have been talking about it and I will say that surcharging is pretty common in other parts of the city we we keep manhole lids in the back of our vehicles because other parts of town the the pressure of the water it just pushes the manholes off so it is something that we're talking about where we want to better understand what's actually causing it in this area and it's something that that we are going to be looking into but kind of as shown earlier we're responding to citywide flooding right now across the city so over 50 homes flooded and so so it's going to take us some time to look into everything because right now everybody's saying hey what's going on and I think it is worth mentioning you talked about the development and everything and if this you mentioned in the presentation I mean this and we did when in Arlington at that meeting last week and you guys have known about this issue and the flooding and the storm drain or more the storm drain issue causing the flooding on Templeton and in the Linwood area yet you continue to approve these massive developments that take away you know the more concrete we get you know the more runoff it is and then you know we've already talked about the point that the runoff is it has the backflow so I mean yeah I've never seen our street ever get bad when I mean the first thing I see is water coming out of the storm drains and the manhole lid you know shaken and then popping off like a foot or two and water just spewing out of it and that's exactly how our street floods has nothing to do with the too much rain and flooding it's you know our houses and the amount of rain that lands on our properties and right next to us that's never going to be enough to get halfway at my driveway but you know with everybody else is coming to us and part of that you know you guys knowing what the issue is knowing that it's the problem and continuing to approve these big developments these big apartment complexes new buildings all of that around us how can you do that with good conscience knowing that that's just going to exacerbate the issue well said dame um I approve I have priest Jennifer chris butler has had his hand nicely raised for a while so if we could first if you want to just answer the question I just asked so in terms of the the development so so it's kind of what we showed is this area has always been uh has always been flood prone so Eric showed the pictures of the single family residential homes there that area was still flood prone before the development and so so when redevelopment happens they're not having to fix that existing flooding problem um and so so it remains um and I will say yes you know there is more and more impervious surface and that is something that we are looking at our development regulations to see if changes in them are warranted I don't see how that answers the question of it doesn't but there I mean you're not going to get I appreciate I understand I'm not going to be you know not going to be rude about it I get that you know you're not going to actually answer the question you really can't um and it would be able to advise of you but you know we kind of know the answer to the question it's you know you you guys knew that there was a problem knew this would exacerbate the problem more so than it was because I've lived there four and a half years it's never flooded and gotten into the house yeah have I seen it bad have I seen it get part of the way up yes knowing that that's the issue and knowing that you're putting in you know more of these developments I mean yes you knew that it was it was already a flood area uh or storm drained back up to cause flooding yes and if it was halfway my driveway that wasn't a problem but over the four and a half years and all these developments you know over the four and a half to ten years the more and more that it gets the worse and worse it gets so I hear what you're saying you're not really answering the question I understand you probably in good faith probably can't um but that's you know that that's the truth of it is you know you guys knew it would make the problem worse yes it was already an issue but it was only an issue halfway at my driveway three two three more feet that's the issue can we ask a question this is pete and laura shop well uh first let me get one mr butler I know linda was saying his hand had been up for quite a long time yeah good evening my name is chris butler i'm the executive director for the parenting center we are a mental health social service non-profit on the corner of fifth and templeson and our facility flooded three times it flooded partially on the 17th it flooded again on the night of the sunday and then that monday and the thing that's concerning to me is the monday flood I had a third of my staff in the facility and we got trapped in the facility we had multiple cars that were were damaged we had to call off staff um and you know for us we we have we filed three claims we had two flood claims and one roof claim based on these three issues and the roof claim has nothing really to do with the city sewers but I now have three claims on my insurance for a small non-profit and we are closed to the general public we've gone to virtual um but we've got we see people that have mental health issues we I mean we're a much needed service in the community and right now I'm weighing the option of if I can afford to keep staff on payroll and what this looks like because we're probably going to be out of commission for eight to twelve weeks while they renovate the our building they had to pull out all of the flooring services they had to make 24 inch cuts to every room on the entire first floor you know right now the estimates over $300,000 in damage just to the facility doesn't include content and that's a huge thing for a small organization like us and we have no options you know there's nothing we can do we can't build a retaining wall and you know around our yard or anything else because anything we do is going to kick it back into the neighborhood it's not going to solve the problem but the question that I have is there seems to be some level of knowledge and understanding of the issues and you know is there anything that can be done whether it is you know is there any assistance that can be provided with you know the for compensation for losses or anything like that are there any services that can be provided because I can only imagine what the neighborhood is going through from a family perspective but from a business perspective this is one of those things that that is going to cripple us for a little while right so I will say that you could file a claim with risk management at the city of Fort Worth so that that is one actually can take I will say too though that we don't have funding to just help people improve their homes with the stormwater program so unfortunately that's something that we don't have you know we have over 50 homes and businesses too so I definitely you know understand your frustration in terms of other federal programs I think Claire don't we have maybe some like an information sheet that we could provide in terms of potential assistance or is that all just flood proofing we have some information on different types of financial assistance that could be available a lot of it's geared towards the you know type of damage that occur in flood plains not necessarily outside flood plain so we're going to look pretty close at that to see how that could be used in this case but that's just to me in these kind of situations one of the the first line of defense for an individual property owners to have some sort of flood insurance that will help kind of offset those costs of damages and it's it's obviously nothing that is going to help you after the facts but yeah and what force we have we have flood insurance but three claims they're going it's going to go through the roof when we renew our insurance and it's going to happen again and so at some point we'll be uninsurable is that through national flood insurance program the NFIP or FEMA flood insurance yeah I think it's national flood yeah I if it's through the the FEMA flood insurance I don't think they're going to ever make you uninsurable they're they're really there to help you mitigate those kind of damages and they understand that it's you know there's going to be situations where there's going to be repetitive losses like that premiums will will go up but they're you know they're geared to be a mitigation option for folks that are you know funding themselves in harm's way Chris well articulated thing the city is couple the next person who had their hand raise was Mr. and Mrs. Shops yes um I have some concerns about something you said earlier about the fact that you have sent out letters and emails letting people know about the flood risk um we have never ever received anything like that we bought our house in 2020 we were not told anything about a flood risk or we would have purchased flood insurance I don't believe any of the homeowners on our street have flood insurance because of that and so we are all out you know 60 70 thousand dollars some people are having to dip into retirement accounts borrow money and you keep saying things like well there are 50 homes across Fort Worth well that's not that many when you consider how many of them are on Templeton alone and the fact that there hasn't been any effort on the city's part to help us with compensation to work with the state or the federal government is very concerning well I will say that the city did work with the county and know that they are looking into federal disaster assistance but that's all being looked into and so so far to my understanding there hasn't been a determination about whether or not that will be available in the future but that is a potential funding opportunity are you going to answer the question about how we supposedly were notified that we were in an area that had flood risk yes yes Claire do you want to talk about your letters because I know that they go out kind of based off of flood risk and I think last year was maybe the was last year the first year in some of these areas right last year would have been the first year that we sent letters to areas outside the FEMA floodplain and that was you know basically in direct response to the need that we need to get some information out there to folks that are in you know some sort of a flood risk area that's not identified on a FEMA floodplain map Templeton's on a 500-year floodplain that's why that's probably they probably didn't send it to the 500-year floodplain so most people didn't get flood insurance I just bought my house on Simpson August 11th moved into 16th I flooded the 17th I also did I also did the city flood claim that Governor Abbott I guess in his article said you can file this with the city I did that I hand delivered it to someone in risk management on Tuesday she called me Tuesday night and said I was denied and I spent a couple of days on gathering my invoices how much money I spent what it's going to cost to just get a call back four hours later saying I was denied so the city's not doing anything for us on Templeton Drive they're all going to do anything because there's no way they took the time to read the 12-page 12 to 15-page document I put together with estimates plus the flood claim that's from the city to just get a call back from where I was later after me hand delivering say yeah yeah we're not we're denied we'll send you a letter so it's kind of horseshit to be honest yeah agreed um kind of kind of touch on what he said I would like to know for the you know you said like the 50 homes in Fort Worth and we account Templeton alone accounts for at least a third of those so if if any of these funds you know you guys have funds set aside for who's in flood planes and all that well if we're a third of it and we're not in a flood plane and you guys are looking into if that's going to be available for us either that or the leftover COVID money or wherever you want to find it um is is Templeton going to be given a priority for that since it's you know storm storm drain issue and we account for a third of the homes the uh to the number if not more to the number you pointed out and then also what is the update on you know Abbott declaring it a disaster and any funds being released from the state either but I'd like the first part of the question answered first yeah in terms of the the funding so the storm water program itself we do not have funding to provide to residents to fix their homes due to flooding um and so so that's it and no we don't have that and I have not heard any updates in terms of the disaster declaration is anyone else any other city staff on the call have any information on that this is Claire and I haven't heard anything on updates to how they're going to manage any kind of funding that's available to residents that have had damages I thought you had mentioned that something for the flood you know people in flood planes there was something for that and you were going to look into something for a street like ours that is not in a flood plane but had more issues than the ones who were in a flood plane since obviously we account for a third or more of the number that you just threw out right well we've got like I said we've got a list of the types of information and funding that could be available to somebody in a flood type situation that we are we send out with other letters that we send out every year um we've been focusing those on the FEMA flood planes because that's where you know all you know all but a bunch of the flood insurance policies are located um but we want to make sure that we're getting that that same message out to other folks that are at risk so this year we should be sending letters that would go to these non FEMA flood flood risk areas as well that would include this area that we're talking about since it's one of the studied areas that we have used to identify you know where these potential flood risk areas are so I would be looking for that probably within the next probably three or four weeks and they're actually at the printer right now so and Claire too I guess to clarify that and those aren't city funding sources those are other federal funding source potential opportunities correct that's right because the utilities you know isn't really available to individuals it's it's geared for capital type projects and citywide improvements right and and so I did want to mention in terms of what we can do right now is we can share a copy of that letter after this meeting with the participants and send it out to Stacy and she can share it as well so people have that information now please do along with the the link whoever you said like the flooding and your presentation the flood insurance that you know we have a discounted rate or something for worth maybe not ours I don't know what that was but I would like the link for that because yeah now that it flooded most are denying it and if they're not you know it's outrageous expensive do you want to talk a little bit Claire about flood insurance in terms of kind of the discount I say just send that out I mean I think people have more pressing questions I don't want to divert the time into that I'd rather have you send it out via email so everybody can ask more pressing questions okay okay unless anybody disagrees miss Eva Bonilla I believe has her is the next person that has her hand raised and again we don't know almost y'all who has had the flooding issues so I'm just going to buy who has their hand raised thank you thank you hi Jennifer a long time Jennifer's been working in our neighborhood on flooding since I was president in 2015 and we had the biggest floods when I moved here in 2017 so because of that she really is dealing with it every all the time she knows Linwood very well and her defense but I was just thinking you know we did finally get the drainage in the park fixed last year and it's working awesome so Wimberley didn't get flooded like it did in 2017 and I and I was wondering that with that drainage that was placed in the park be the kind that could be put at Templeton because it takes a lot of water out of there and uh and like less than 12 hours you know the the park is a detention and our retention and so the water stays there and it takes all the water from Wimberley and pushes it through that drain I just wondered if if a drain like that could be placed on Templeton and I know it took a long time to have it placed it was a lot of big machinery and everything and I just wondered if that could be done for Templeton yeah so in terms of the park we have kind of looked at you know possibilities in the park you know could we use that for detention uh it would of course impact the park and the trees there in terms of we would need to to cut down and do some kind of you know if we wanted to do stormwater detention in the park um so that is something you know that we can kind of look at again I know it's it's not a huge park so it doesn't have a huge area um but but there are you know opportunities that we could look at um in terms of park drainage and that's um parks across the city you know that's oftentimes are are built in those lower areas um and used for drainage so that is something that we could look into and then also I wanted to state that I know that uh Daniel Garcia served in one of your committees and we tried to get the real estate and the brokers to disclose when they were selling homes in our neighborhood that our neighborhood would flood and the last big one was June 2017 but of course they shot us down and there was nothing that we could do and it was a bigger challenge but and it's you know we took it to the city we took it to the state and uh it was shot down at the state it was because the real estate agents what we were so this problem has been around and then what last question when I was uh raised on Weisenberger in the late 50s they put the big drains uh in the street and uh so those don't aren't any good that was in the late 50s I mean they were bigger than we could stand in them and that was because of the flood because I was one of I was six months old in the second floor of Montgomery Plaza in May of 1949 when it flooded here so I remember that so that was in the late 50s of the early 60s in case and they were put on Weisenberger under the street so there are big drains so cannon are you aware of so cannon Henry is our infrastructure manager in for the stormwater program are you aware of what she's what Eva's mentioning so I'm not exactly aware of the street location but there are some 84 inch pipes large pipes that we do have especially on field and also going up in the Bailey industrial area as well and those are the some of the uh infrastructure that we have assessed and currently they look clean and there's no problems with them they're in great condition so there's just so much stormwater that's that's the and and those evaluations that we did I mean they were you know you have smaller pipes and you need huge you know 10 feet pipes instead of two feet pipes so that's the big problem it's just the capacity okay this I've got a question about the stormwater detention going back to the Templeton acute a cute problem on Templeton so what do we need to do to prioritize Templeton where they're very at least is a little bit of like unredeveloped property left on the northern part of Templeton so perhaps that's a that's a candidate for a water detention place I'm not sure but what can we on Templeton do to prioritize the creation of a detention lo location around Templeton to deal with our problem um that well so that's definitely something that we can take a look at um in terms of available land um and looking at the park to see how the park could be used so so that is something that we can take a look at afterwards well Mr he wasn't he wasn't talking about the park he started there's undeveloped how homes land down on the north side of Templeton uh that are you know they're they're they're just they're undeveloped you know old homes on peering beam you know at some point those likely will be gone I would say uh in the in the future you know that is maybe a good candidate for the city to come in and buy it all and potentially make that a retention pond because it bottlenecks right there in the center of Templeton uh right there so it that I think that's what he was getting to like not the park that that's could be another option but the park could be an option yeah I don't know if that's a better solution or not but right there on Templeton right now there's undeveloped spaces that today's point are not always going to be there so why doesn't the city just immediately claim those and build a detention location and help alleviate this problem yeah because that's not an 80 million dollar project or a five year project we can get that done no pretty quick so there's five or six homes and you have Tesla on the other on the backside of them so there's something that could possibly be done in the meantime to mitigate the issue uh hello can can you hear me yes hi sorry sorry I just jumped on late but I heard someone say that there was no flooding on Wimberley and that's not true there was flooding on Wimberley um there's definitely flooding where I was on Wimberley and um further down toward Curry I believe or Windgate so this was 300 where the park is 317 the fire truck I have video the fire trucks couldn't even go down Wimberley so Wimberley was flooded as well where that flume is at the park I said minimal there was you should have seen it in 2017 it went up to those houses like it didn't Templeton up now and we couldn't get fire trucks down there I have it on video so I know we didn't get any on the watch either okay um sorry we had a question so so I do know that we have been on you know it's 750 um so so maybe take time for a couple more questions I don't have anywhere to be I don't have a house to go to I have not a question but more of a statement because I'm just reading the denial letter from the city that I got back in two and a half hours from them saying that y'all scoped the drains and inspected them and found that the inlets were clear I had took pictures of the city workers in Templeton just so I had time stance of the day it was august 23rd and august 29th when they went down the street and opened the drain and then the 29th is when they scoped the drains the storms were before the 23rd it was the 17th and what the the 22nd uh or the the 20th and 21st you know so they were probably clear because they had a tidal wave of water and go through them three separate times so they probably were clear I would like to see if there was on record before when the left on the city went back and scoped those drains because we didn't have rain six months prior to that a heavy rain so when was the last time that the city scoped the drains because they probably backed up with debris before the the two inch rain that we had on Wednesday so that's probably why I flooded on two inches because no one did scope it you know months before that likely I don't know but I would love to know if it's on record when the last time they'll scope it prior to the 17th so we can uh we can pull that information I will say that we've got um over or almost a thousand miles of storm drain city wide and so we can't regularly go out there and tv all of the lines uh all the time so not asking not asking to do high risk priorities and we did we did go out uh I think it was the 19th I mentioned earlier on the powerpoint can't remember the date uh but before august august 23rd y'all were on the street I have photos of I'm looking at it right now august 23rd y'all open the drains I have another picture august 29th they were scoping the drains I went up don't say what are y'all doing oh we're scoping the drains I said have y'all found anything they said no I said probably because you just had three huge tidal waves of water go through the street so they are they are probably clear and my denial intercepted and I'm like well yeah what what do you what do you else do you expect uh yeah they're gonna be clear after three huge range that push through push everything through so that's why I want to know when the last time was before that before august 17th when was the last time tibelton got scoped probably I bet it's six months plus we can pull that information I would love it my name's dame steinhagen please send that to me let us all know please mr shop your hand is still raised did you get your question answered earlier or do you still have a question okay I just want to mention real quick for for everybody's still on the call um I uh I did you know we did have a little Templeton meeting um you know just just about like sandbags some other things things we could do what's going on and everything possibly some other options if you guys want you know I can put my phone number in the chat but love to have anybody else that's having any issues touch base with us you know as we're finding new ways to prevent flooding and possibly look at other options get some relief for this so my address is 409 Templeton but I'll put all that in the chat if you guys want to see it before you go love to get an email or a text from you guys and keep you guys in the loop for what we're already talking about on Templeton as neighbors sounds good okay I kind of think we've reached a good ending point so Stacy did you have any final words or anything I just wanted to thank everybody I want to thank our residents Jennifer Claire everyone thank you so much I know it ran a little long but if we could circle back maybe you know after this and we don't have to have a meeting but I'll try to get some communication between everybody so I really appreciate everybody this was very informative and we will be sending out the the PowerPoint presentation slides and the link to the meeting so uh so someone just they want to go back and definitely we'll be sharing that information yes I will share that with everybody thank you guys have a good night yeah please please leave it on for another minute or two so everybody can uh I just typed in my information I'd like everybody to get it so please please keep the call going for another couple minutes sure sure thank you thanks Dane and Dane I can make sure I can send um yeah the other the other Dane said he talked to you so I was expecting an email from that side but I mean uh just I figured there's people on this call that we might not have their information and you know I've talked to some other people on the other side of seven too that you know might might be willing to join our group and maybe see what we can what we can do to help prevent this in the future and you know help each other out to get back to get some get some compensation back for this all righty sounds good so yeah Stacey if you're still on if you want to email that what I have or if you've already sent it to Dane I'm sure Dane will send it over to me the other Dane I know there's too many Danes yeah whatever y'all need just let me know I'm here for y'all well uh yeah shoot me an email so I have yours uh so I can kind of let you know what about the meeting we had you know what what we're looking to do on Templeton and uh you know hopefully get some more contact since I know you have that Facebook group um probably have a lot more we can post something on there and get some contacts I'm going door to door I can only get so much and I passed out some flyers and so I got some good feedback but it's obviously still more than half of the half the neighborhood I don't have their information okay sounds good thanks everybody I'm gonna go eat dinner all right well yeah I hope everyone has that I mean it's been a couple minutes so if you don't I mean my address is there but look forward to talking to all you guys I'll be sending uh something out this weekend or Monday uh you know me and uh me and Ben and Dane uh have a little bit to discuss probably Stacy as well but waiting for some more some more contacts contacts together and I'll send something out so you know if I have your email be expecting something uh for sure by Monday all right sounds good all right thanks everyone have a good night good night