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Panelists urge scaling nature-based flood projects, cite Washington program's $359 million investment
Summary
Panelists at a resilience session said multi-benefit, nature-based flood projects reduce risk and deliver environmental benefits but require larger, diversified funding; speakers cited roughly $359,000,000 invested in Washington and described voluntary buyouts, setbacks and side-channel projects as examples.
Panelists at a presentation on nature-based flood mitigation urged greater investment and streamlined permitting to scale projects that both reduce flood risk and restore habitat.
Tazio Bey, who opened the session and identified himself as a watershed codings director at a Portland-based health foundation partnering with the Washington State Department of Ecology, said locally available dollars are insufficient to meet the scale of need and that the "cost of inaction is so much higher than the cost of doing the solutions." He framed the discussion around multi-benefit, landscape-scale projects that combine flood-risk reduction with habitat gains.
Bob, who introduced himself as the Southwest director for the Washington State Department…
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