The hope is by April there will be a meeting where the public will be able to comment. The Army Corps of Engineers said they want to get people from the community involved in the study too. That won’t happen until the study is complete in Aug. “We have to submit a budget request, which is a budget comes out every two years, we’d submit a request and wait for Congress to approve that request to move forward,” Hamor said. The plan is to move forward with the study but even once it’s finished, it’s a long path forward. “We should never, sort of, stiff-arm them, or, you know, we critiqued a few things and I really like the improvements that we see in here.” “I can’t stress this enough: Their expertise for us in so invaluable,” LoCastro said. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and non-Federal Sponsor, Collier County, Florida, have reinitiated the Collier County Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study.

Michelle Hamor is the chief of planning and policy branch for the Army Corps of Engineers. As of Monday evening, the Florida Medical Examiners. Hamor said they’re not able to move forward without country support but Collier County Commissioner Rick LoCastro is all for it. (WPLG) Hurricane Ian brought a historic and deadly storm surge to southwest Florida when it came ashore two weeks ago yesterday. “We’ll reevaluate coastal storms within Collier County and look to evaluate measures that would reduce that risk in the future,” Hamor said, adding that “the plan is to recommend a plan that we could lean towards designing construction in the future.”

Tamor said the study began in 2018 in response to hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. We were approved for $2.97 million of federal funding, and three additional years,” said Michelle Hamor, the chief of planning and policy branch for the Army Corps of Engineers. “This is an opportunity to go back and evaluate coastal storms within Collier County. On Tuesday, the Army Corps of Engineers presented its latest ideas to county commissioners, a multi-billion dollar project in the works for years. The closer you are to the center of it, she said, the more likely you are to experience stronger winds pushing more water on shore.Sea levels in Florida continue to rise and as they do, plans are being made to keep Collier County from that and heavy storm surges. James Spinuzza was overwhelmed on Thursday morning. 'But if you've got the onshore flow, you've got saturated ground from the rainfall and you've got rain not being able to flow out because you've got water being pushed inland, so you're going to have a exacerbated flooding situation.'īorowski said storm surge could be an issue from the Florida Keys all the way up to north of Tarpon Springs, but it just depends on the position of the storm. Family shows how high storm surge destroyed their yards and damaged their cars and home in Naples.

It'll drain out via the Hillsborough River and local waterways,' Borowski said. 'Normally it will seep into the water table. So areas at sea level right now, you're going to be under water.'īorowski said the storm surge will be compounded by rainfall, which could be up to a foot in some areas. 'So the sea level rise, you can think of it as a temporary rise of between 5 and 10 feet. 'You can really just picture it as a plow taking up all that water and pushing it inland,' Borowski said. Megan Borowski, a meteorologist with the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network said the risk tied to storm surge needs to be taken seriously. The map lets users toggle between a simulation of the various hurricane intensities, from a Category 1 to a Category 5. To help prepare residents for what they can expect, the National Hurricane Center has an interactive map that shows the impact storm surge can have along Florida's coast, as well as along the Eastern seaboard and in the Gulf of Mexico to Texas. Dangerous winds and torrential downpours will not be the only concerns as Hurricane Ian continues to intensify on a track into the Gulf of Mexico and toward Florida.

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