Planning in Water’s Way: Resilient Strategies Based on analysis of the I-86 Innovation Corridor Agenda

• Welcome • Planning in Water’s Way Project Overview • Where Are the Flood Hazards? • What Are the Flood Impacts? • Areas of Concern • Flood Mitigation Options • Illustrative Examples • Resilience Strategies Planning Area Planning Area Prior in Southern Tier Central Region • 1784 – Ice Flood • 1786 – Pumpkin Flood • 1794 • 1816 • 1817 – Pumpkin Flood • 1833 – The Great Inundation • 1840 • 1846 • January 1857 • June 1857 • July 1857 • November 1857 – Big Flood • 1859 • 1860 – another Pumpkin Flood • 1861 – The Tremendous Flood Main and Seneca Streets in Village of Hornellsville, 1865. • 1864 Barracks at “The Rebel Prison” in Elmira washed away in • 1865 March 1865. Prior Floods in Southern Tier Central Region • 1867 • 1870 • 1872 – Flood of record for Keuka Lake • 1886 • June 1889 – The Big Flood of 1889 • November 1889 • 1894 • 1900 • 1901

Imperial Engineering Company, Painted Post, 1901. Newly constructed dikes saved the City of Corning. Prior Floods in Southern Tier Central Region

• February 1902 • July 1902 • 1903 • 1912 • June 1916 • September 1916 • 1918 • 1920 • 1935 – Finger Lakes Flood 1935 Finger Lakes Flood Montour Falls More than 40 deaths were recorded.

Flood of record for gauges at • Cohocton at Campbell • Canacadea Creek near Hornell • Canisteo River at Arkport Painted Post

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Hammondsport Prior Floods in Southern Tier Central Region

• 1939 • 1982 • July 1998 • 1946 • 1983 • 1999 • 1956 • February 1984 • 2000 • 1964 • June 1984 • 2002 • 1972 – Hurricane Agnes • August 1984 • July 2003 Erwin, 2003 • 1975 – Hurricane Eloise • 1992 • August 2003 • January 1976 • March 1993 • May 2004 • February 1976 • April 1993 – Blizzard • August 2004 – Tropical Storm Gaston • June 1976 – Fathers’ Day of 1993 • September 2004 – Tropical Storm Francis Flood • February 1994 • September 2004 – Tropical Storm Ivan • February 1977 • August 1994 – • April 2005 • September 1977 Hurricane Beryl • June 2005 • March 1978 • November 1994 • November 2005 • August 1978 • January 1996 • June 2006 – 2 lives lost in Hammondsport • January 1979 • June 1996 • March 1979 • November 1996 • June 2006 • February 1981 – Campbell • December 1996 • July 2008 ice jam • 1997 • September 2008 • February 1981 – another • January 1998 • 2010 Campbell ice jam • June 1998 • February 2011 – Campbell ice jam • April-May 2011 Prior Floods in Southern Tier Central Region

• 2011 –Tropical Storm Lee • July 2013 • August 2013 • May 2014 • June 2014 • June 2015 • July 2015 • June 2017 • January 2018 • June 2018 • August 2018 Elmira, 2015 • September 2018 Prior Flood Impacts Tropical Storm Agnes, 1972

• Steuben, Chemung, and Schuyler Counties • “Perhaps as many as 400 commercial and industrial firms suffered losses as a result of the storm.” • “Eighteen thousand workers were thrown out of work for varying periods of time.” • About 20% of the region’s workforce was directly affected.

Source: “Regional Analysis for Development Planning in Disaster Areas,” by Barclay G. Jones and James H. Mars, Technical Report No. 88, September 1974, Cornell University Water Resources and Marine Sciences Center and Center for Urban Development Research.

There were 23 fatalities in Steuben County. Potential Flood Impacts

NATURAL DISASTER IMPACT

IMMEDIATE ONE YEAR LATER THREE YEARS LATER 40% 25% 75%

OF BUSINESSES OF SMALL BUSINESSES MORE SMALL WITHOUT A CONTINUITY WON’T REOPEN BUSINESSES WILL CLOSE PLAN WILL FAIL

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