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City updates vulnerability assessment, identifies focus areas and 20 grant-ready projects under Resilient Florida planning grant
Summary
Gainesville staff and consultants updated a hydrologic model and exposure analysis under a Resilient Florida planning grant, identified focus areas and will screen up to 30 adaptation projects (10 city / 10 GRU shortlist) to pursue implementation grants; final deliverables are due in June 2025.
City resiliency staff and consultant Jones Edmunds reported to the Commission on Feb. 20 that the Resilient Florida planning grant update to the regional vulnerability assessment included a refined hydraulic model, new lake bathymetry and updated soils data, and that the team has mapped critical assets exposed to increasingly extreme rainfall events.
Consultant Brett Cunningham said the project re-used and refined the Alachua County vulnerability assessment model, ran the required design storm scenarios (baseline and future change-factor scenarios for 2040 and 2070) and…
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