The Northern Sacramento Valley Branch is pleased to present:

Recovery Efforts and Watershed Impacts Related to the 153,336 Acre Camp Fire in Northern California

Radley Ott, P.E., Assistant Public Works Director

Butte County, CA

PRESENTATION:

The Camp fire in Northern California claimed nearly three times as many lives and structures than any other wildfire in California’s history. The fire took seventeen days to contain, and total damage is estimated to be $17 billion. Environmental impacts from the largest fire in the United States, since the Cloquet fire in 1918, will take months and years to even be realized. The cleanup is estimated to be the biggest debris clean-up since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and debris removal is estimated to be approximately $1.2 billion. Radley will be providing an informal presentation on his experiences and activities responding to fire damage and lessons learned to date on the watershed related activities immediately following the Camp Fire. These key activities include integrating large scale abatement and recovery efforts with various local, state and federal entities; implementation of Best Management Practices; addressing heightened risk of physical watershed processes (i.e. rain events); and water quality monitoring.

SPEAKER BIO:

Radley Ott grew up in Central Oregon, and earned a B.S. in Environmental Science and minor in Biology from Willamette University and earned a M.S. in Civil Engineering, focusing on Open Channel Hydraulics and River Mechanics from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. In 2016, Radley joined the General Services department in Butte County. Now, Radley serves Butte County as the Assistant Director for the Department of Public Works. In this capacity, Radley is involved in road maintenance activities, capital projects and recently has become a key public figure in addressing the Camp Fire recovery efforts.

AGENDA:

No-Host Social and Registration- 5:30-6:00 p.m.
Announcements & Dinner - 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Keynote Speaker - 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Questions & Answers - 7:30 - 8:00 p.m.

MEETING COSTS:

Members: $25.00
Non-Members: $30.00
Students: $10.00

• If you register after Noon on Wednesday, March 13th, or walk-in, a $5.00 surcharge will be added to the meeting cost (excluding students)

MEETING SPONSOR: Wellntel

WelIntel Until now, groundwater level has been measured by experts – contractors, inspectors or scientists – using special tools and costly equipment. Since nobody can afford to have a professional open a well and test it every day, the information that is collected in these events is obsolete almost as soon as it is gathered. Wellntel is a groundwater information system. With Wellntel, well owners and groundwater professionals can see the current water level, water level over time, when pumping occurs, and the information can be compared to previous periods and other factors like rainfall. Wellntel’s groundwater information system made up of three components: a sensor, a gateway, and the cloud. The Sensor takes groundwater level readings from the top of a groundwater well and passes these readings as encrypted messages on to the Gateway, or via some other method of telemetry such as a laptop computer, which, in turn, passes the messages onto the Wellntel Cloud. In the Cloud, data is processed, checked for accuracy, and organized for graphical display to an online dashboard for registered users.

If you have questions about the meeting, please call Eddy Teasdale at (530) 419-9484 or email him at eteasdale@lsce.com.