TECHNICAL PROGRAM PRE-FORUM WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 17.30 Bus departs Corner Deakin Ave & Rambling Way outside Quality Resort Hotel 17.45 Bus departs Corner Deakin Ave & Eighth St outside the Art Vault 18.30 GHD RIVER CRUISE and DINNER 18.45 Welcome Glenn Milne, Mayor Mildura Rural City Council 19.00 Dinner 20.30 River Boat docks - return bus to Mildura two stops Wentworth River Boat, Wharf St, Wentworth NSW Murray-Darling River cruise and fish & chip dinner DAY ONE THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2014 9.30 Forum Registration 10.30 Welcome to Country Ken Stewart 10.33 Opening John Cooke, Mallee CMA Board 10.50 Master of Ceremonies Welcome Tim Cummins, Tim Cummins & Associates 10.55 PLENARY PRESENTATION 1: Flooding - lessons from the past Sharyon Peart, Mallee CMA Board Chair Paul Bennett, DEPI Director Risk & Resilience 11.20 PLENARY SESSION 1: Agency overviews Catchment Management Authorities, Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Melbourne Water, Municipal Association of Victoria, State Emergency Service, Bureau of Meteorology, National Floodplain Management Association. 12.30 LUNCH Concurrent Session 1 Stream 1 (Acacia Room) Community Engagement 13.00 13.25 13.50 14.15 Maximising the value of community input into the development of flood studies Shaun Morgan RainWatchers program: community rainfall collation Brad Henderson Engaging communities and stakeholders to better manage floods: 7 towns in the Clare & Gilbert Valleys, South Australia Nicky O’Broin How flood managers see things: perceptions of floods and flood management amongst Local Government actors in Victoria Dr Brian Cook Stream 2 (Banksia Room) Technical Stormwater – untapping the potential. A rapid approach to assessing avoided drainage costs Kristina Sestokas A critical review of the rainfall on grid approach Ben Tate Stream 3 (Melaleuca) Lessons Learned When Noah Comes to Mildura in February 2011 Robert Tindall Management of residual flood waters: why you need to know! Konrad Gill AR&R project: test catchments and 2D modelling Rob Swan Community flood recovery – Moira Shire case study David Booth The need for speed in flood modelling Richard Connell Flood mitigation improvement in Creswick since the 2010-11 floods Bruce Lucas 14.40 DEPART FOR TOUR AFTERNOON TEA on bus Tour of Hattah Lakes environmental watering sites 18.05 Arrive DEPI Drop off to collect cars 18.15 Arrive Riverside Golf Club Riverside Golf Club, Park St, Mildura Walking tour of Sandilong Creek & Pre dinner drinks 19.00 WATER TECHNOLOGY DINNER Dinner at Riverside Golf Club DAY TWO FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2014 TECHNICAL PROGRAM 8.30 Arrival 8.45 PLENARY Presentation 2: Emergency management - the new operating framework Joe Buffone, EMV Director Risk and Resilience 9.15 FloodZoom Steve Muncaster, DEPI Acting Manager Floodplain Management 9.35 The Insurability of Australian flood risk John McAneney, Risk Frontiers, Macquarie University INSIGHT SESSIONS 9.55 Improving flood insurance through industry/government engagement Andrew Dyer, Insurance Australia Group 10.15 River operation during high water events David Dreverman, MDBA Executive Director, River Management 10.35 MORNING TEA Concurrent Session 2 Stream 1 (Acacia Room) Levees Stream 2 (Banksia Room) Environment 10.50 Levees - an approach to surveying levee condition Amanda Woodman Floodplain vegetation: potential for recovery Cherie Campbell 11.15 Levee management guidelines Viktor Brenners Managed environmental watering on Hattah Lakes floodplains Fiona Freestone & Mark Henderson 11.40 Living behind a levee, surviving another one-in-a-century flood in partnership with the insurance company. Lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy Daniel Manolache Portable automated logger system David McPhee Stream 3 (Melaleuca) Lessons Learned Developing a new floodplain management strategy for the Port Phillip and Westernport region Deborah Riley DTPLI assistance to councils on flood related projects and issues Elke Cummins & Simon Cover Creating communication pathways to help incorporate local knowledge into emergency management and decision making Andrew Sheehan Concurrent Session 3 Stream 1 (Acacia Room) Technical Stream 2 (Banksia Room) Environment Stream 3 (Melaleuca) Lessons Learned 12.05 Towards integrating multi-sourced sensors for natural disaster management: flood management case study Farzad Alamdar Environmental watering: how is it the same or different from floods? Denis Flett Water corporations and floods: The Goulburn-Murray Water experience Mark Bailey 12.30 Flood modelling, data visualisation and emergency management Philip Pedruco Improving connectivity of unregulated flows across the lower Ovens River floodplain Euan Hind Infrastructure recovery workshop report post-floods in north Victoria –practitioners’ experiences Malcolm D.G. Styles 12.55 The revision of Australian rainfall and runoff: implications for floodplain managers Tony Ladson The evolution of practices in response to Flood recovery – a statewide perspective climate change in Port Fairy Oliver Moles Ellen Sheridan 13.15 LUNCH 13.45 PLENARY SESSION 2: Facilitated panel discussions - After the 2010-12 floods, how well are we preparing for the next big one? Andy Sheehan, John Parker - VicSES, Jason Russell - Gannawarra Shire Council, Brad Drust - North Central CMA, Steve Muncaster - DEPI 14.45 Facilitated feedback session to benefit the next Flood Forum Victoria 15.30 CLOSE 15.45 Bus departs from DEPI to Mildura airport