Video & Transcript Research : 'flood mitigation'
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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Regulated Industries Mar 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- mitigation.
- . flooding that we brought back and have implemented.
- We also working on our transmission structures, our substations and lastly, some flood mitigation and
- There's that one home over there that didn't have flooding there.
- So a lot of substation flooding through the lean.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Jul 1st, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- flooding.
- We're working on mitigating.
- The debris flows that can come from post-fire flooding.
- The flooding really exacerbated those issues after the fire.
- Don't wait for a fire or flood.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
January 14, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- Certainly it helps in some situations - it mitigates against some of the wind impacts.
- But when we have Kathy Perkins: flooding issues.
- Certainly, the investments in mitigation that are needed would be really helpful.
- We've been able to tap into that money to do mitigation.
- You know, we put mitigation at the back end of everything.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- In closing, passing Senate Bill 658 and establishing a Massachusetts flood management and mitigation
- flood risk across your state, ensuring proactively manage and mitigate flood risk across your state,
- protection entities, which aims to create the Massachusetts Flood Management and Mitigation Authority
- Flooding doesn't respect municipal boundaries.
- By establishing the Massachusetts Flood Management and Mitigation Authority, the legislature would empower
Summary:
The hearing covered a broad set of environmental and water-related bills, with much of the testimony focused on blue economy and circular economy proposals, drought management, drinking water safety, flood resilience, and water infrastructure funding. Supporters of bills such as H. 987 and H. 988 described grant programs for blue economy workforce development, research, small businesses, and public education about a circular economy. Other speakers backed measures on coastal erosion research, recreational boating dredging, cranberry water-right transfers, sand mining oversight, and a voucher program for home water filtration in PFAS-impacted communities. Several elected officials and advocates also urged passage of bills to require private well testing, improve school drinking water safety, and address sand mining pollution and PFAS contamination.
Water supply and drought issues drew extensive testimony. Senator Eldridge and others supported legislation to let the state, through DEP and the drought management task force, impose regional water-use restrictions during droughts and make the task force permanent in statute. Advocates from watershed groups, farms, and environmental organizations said the current town-by-town approach is inconsistent and ineffective, and they described drought impacts on rivers, farms, private wells, and wildfire risk. A related bill on private wells was supported as a way to help homeowners test and remediate contaminated wells, especially in rural areas without public water.
The committee also heard testimony on a bill to allow the Lynnfield Water District to join the MWRA, with local officials saying the move would help address PFAS and other contamination and improve supply reliability. Another major panel supported a water infrastructure funding bill, arguing that aging drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems need major new investment, including support for PFAS treatment, sewer rate relief, biosolids research, and regional interconnections. Members asked about costs, funding sources, and the relationship to existing revolving loan funds; witnesses said the bill would need to be paired with future bond funding and new revenue ideas. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chairs repeatedly invited written testimony and noted the large number of speakers.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We've had flooding. We just came off of a two-year drought.
- Our county commissioner, try and find, find ways not only to for flood mitigation, but also use it as
- The estimate is mitigation is going to be 130,000 acres.
- that they're flooding.
- We prioritize planning for water supply and floods.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (01/20/2026)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- testimony are pictures from flooding testimony are pictures from flooding that<01:17:28.080>
- created what are known as coastal flood created what are known as coastal flood resilience<01:19
- <01:27:28.320>
um already in existence in a flood zone. um already in existence in a flood - instrument and a home for flood instrument and a home for flood resilience.<01:35:43.760>
The - 01:40:22.159>
mitigation <01:40:22.880>plan um and a hazard mitigate mitigation plan um
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/24/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Transcript Highlights:
- Is this for birds or is this for fire mitigation?
- The dense growth also clogs the river corridor, increasing flood risk in an already flood-prone area.
- It can also clog irrigation... ...increasing flood risk in an already flood-prone area.
- We are seeking funding to help mitigate some of this. So, Mr.
- It kept a flood. I'm here for the biggest part is for flood control.
Keywords:
underground utilities, utility locating, dig safe, call before you dig, 811, excavation safety, damage prevention, one-call center, locate request, white lining, large project coordination, buried infrastructure, subsurface utilities, utility marking, locator wire, locator strip, interactive positive response system, landlord duties, apartment community, mobile home park
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee May 12th, 2026
Energy, Utilities and Communications
Transcript Highlights:
- , not just the utility mitigation that's been taking place, California can accelerate statewide mitigation
- On safety, the wildfire mitigation plan process is working.
- You may not have the earthquake, but you may have the flood.
- They need money to do wildfire mitigation, but we, Wildfire mitigation—they need money to do wildfire
- We invest heavily in wildfire prevention and mitigation.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- mitigation.
- We've installed flood monitoring.
- We also are working on our transmission structures, our substations, and lastly, some flood mitigation
- We saw a lot of substation flooding through Helene. We have plans to mitigate that.
- Trout Creek and First Street substation, again, further flooding.
Summary:
The committee met to hear invited presentations on storm recovery and storm protection from the Florida Public Service Commission, Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy, Tampa Electric, Chesapeake Utilities, and the Office of Public Counsel. The PSC reviewed the history of storm restoration financing and utility hardening efforts after major storms such as Hurricane Andrew, the 2004-05 hurricane seasons, Irma, and Michael, explaining storm reserve funds, storm recovery bonds, and the current three-year storm protection plan process. The commission’s role in approving plans and later reviewing prudence of actual costs was emphasized, along with the types of work included in the plans such as vegetation management, pole replacement, undergrounding, feeder hardening, and substation flood protection.
The utilities described their own storm-hardening investments and recent storm performance. FPL said it has spent about $4.9 billion on storm protection and recovery-related efforts, highlighted improved restoration times during Helene and Milton, and said it is expanding undergrounding, feeder hardening, and smart-grid technology. Duke Energy reported more than 40,000 hardened poles and structures since 2021, major gains from self-healing grid technology, and faster restoration during recent storms. Tampa Electric described a roughly $200 million annual storm protection effort, including vegetation management, undergrounding, substation hardening, and new storm surge protections, and Chesapeake Utilities discussed its smaller-scale hardening program, vegetation work, pole replacement, and rapid restoration after Helene in Nassau County.
Committee members asked about how utilities prioritize neighborhoods for lateral hardening, whether maps of planned projects could be shared, how much each utility has spent on undergrounding and hardening, and how reliability comparisons are normalized against the national average. Public Counsel Walt Trierweiler argued that storm recovery and hardening costs fall too heavily on investor-owned utility customers, said the current framework lacks a meaningful cost-benefit or prudence check at the planning stage, and urged broader sharing of storm costs because the benefits extend to the whole state. Senators also discussed whether the commission can review the reasonableness of approved programs and whether future reports or recommendations from Public Counsel would be helpful. No votes or formal actions were taken.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We've had flooding. We just came on.
- With our county commissioner trying to find ways not only to for flood mitigation, but also use it as
- The estimate is mitigation is going to be 130,000 acres.
- that they're flooding.
- We prioritize planning for water supply and floods.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee Jun 23rd, 2026
Natural Resources and Water
Transcript Highlights:
- So with or without the bill, California is taking on massive wildfire mitigation projects to protect
- flooding.
- This bill makes it easier to capture flood flows safely.
- I'm Kristen Sicki, general manager of the Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District.
- to divert water when the river is operating for flood control, while also ensuring the protection of
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Transportation Feb 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And then we also have a role to fight the flood elevation in Florida. Right?
- So how do we mitigate impacts of storm surge?
- And they've got a mitigation float.
- Mitigate Florida working group right now are part of it's part of that.
- Our state we know people are are flooding the state 8 to 1200. Today's number.
TX
Texas 89th 1st C.S.
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 5th, 2025
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- flood plains.
- and recognize that the flood plains where we shouldn't be developing cause the next flood may come and
- Our old flood maps are outdated.
- You've done an enormous amount of work in looking at, um, flood zones and where there are mitigation
- The flood mitigation strategies designed specifically for Texas. So we have solutions at hand.
Keywords:
youth camps, emergency preparedness, safety standards, health regulations, camp licensing, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace, medical examiner, county judge, sheriff, mayor, emergency coordinator, emergency manager license
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Energy (7-24-25) - Reupload
Transcript Highlights:
- protection, as this is an flood protection, as this is an increasingly<00:37:51.400>
persistent wetlands, perform critical flood wetlands, perform critical flood control,<00:37:59.960>water - <00:53:52.720>
um specific purpose of mitigating um specific purpose of mitigating um problems - They had to mitigate this wetland.
- These funds are somewhat restricted and they are for stream and wetland mitigation only.
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:26
Approval of Minutes 00:02:27
LIHEAP Presentation and Public Hearing 00:02:42
Conservation Opportunities in Kentucky 00:29:52, 958, all
Summary:
The committee first took up a public hearing and presentation on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Shannon Hall of the Department for Community Based Services and Rick Baker of Community Action Kentucky explained that LIHEAP is a 100% federally funded block grant that helps low-income households pay heating and cooling bills, avoid utility disconnects, and support weatherization. They outlined the program’s components, eligibility limits, seasonal application periods, and recent participation figures, including tens of thousands of households served through the summer cooling, fall subsidy, winter crisis, and spring subsidy components. They also described weatherization priorities, the partnership with Kentucky Housing Corporation, and the role of Community Action agencies in administering the program statewide.
Members asked about Assurance 16, the balance between need and available funding, summer cooling assistance, weatherization measurement, renter versus homeowner participation, and whether federal changes could affect LIHEAP. Hall and Baker said Assurance 16 supports energy-burden reduction through education, case management, and conservation strategies; that funding has generally been sufficient in recent years but crisis funds have sometimes been exhausted quickly in the past; and that summer assistance is primarily electric utility support. They also said weatherization uses return-on-investment testing and that Kentucky still has a large backlog of homes needing service. On federal funding, they said the recently passed federal bill did not directly cut LIHEAP, but future appropriations could still affect it, and any major reduction could leave a gap the state might need to consider filling. The committee approved the minutes and later approved the LIHEAP finding of fact; no members of the public signed up to testify.
After concluding LIHEAP, the committee heard a presentation from Heather Jeff of The Nature Conservancy on conservation opportunities in Kentucky. She described the organization’s voluntary land-protection work and highlighted the Cumberland Forest project, a conservation easement on about 55,000 acres in Bell, Knox, and Leslie counties supported in part by a $3.875 million state appropriation. She also reported on mine-land reforestation, elk habitat work, and the rapid allocation of a $2 million appropriation for the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund. Jeff emphasized the economic value of conservation for tourism, hunting and fishing, agriculture, forestry, bourbon, and flood protection, and said the group is finalizing a Kentucky conservation needs assessment and related feasibility research.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force (9-10-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- In the 2022 floods, only 5% of households had flood insurance.
- is flood in the inaccessibility of flood is flood in the inaccessibility of flood insurance<02:02
- households to recover from flood floods. households to recover from flood floods.
- Flood Insurance Program around 350. So Flood Insurance Program around 350.
- risk of flooding. risk of flooding.
Summary:
The task force met with a quorum, approved the August meeting minutes, and heard a presentation from Dr. Jerry Brosky of the Kentucky Mesonet and Kentucky Climate Center. He described the Mesonet’s statewide weather network, now with 84 stations in 78 counties, real-time data used by the National Weather Service, mobile apps, and more than a billion observations. He said recent legislative funding has allowed upgrades such as soil temperature and moisture sensors, cameras at every site, and improved communications and power systems, and has enabled expansion into new counties. He also highlighted products used for flooding, drought, and heat safety, including a wet bulb globe temperature tool being developed with the Department of Public Health. In response to questions, he said counties interested in a station should contact his center, that a station typically costs about $50,000, and that the program is already considering a second Pike County site.
The committee then heard from Ryan Drain of Blue Skies and Chris McGee of the American Red Cross on long-term disaster recovery and a software platform called Darcy, short for Disaster Aware and Ready Communities Initiative. McGee explained the Red Cross’s long-term recovery work, including support for recovery groups, direct financial assistance, grantmaking, and coordination with local and federal partners. He emphasized that disasters are occurring more frequently and with repeated impacts, and shared examples from Kentucky and other states showing the need for organized recovery and storm shelter support. Drain said Darcy was developed after the 2021 Mayfield-Graves tornado recovery to replace fragmented spreadsheets and PDFs with a centralized, survivor-led system for preparedness, response, and recovery, designed to improve coordination, reduce duplication, and shorten recovery time. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond adoption of the minutes.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Sep 3rd, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- When a parkland or recreation facility is identified in a safety element or hazard mitigation plan to
- Some cities charge $40,000, $50,000, or $60,000 per unit for their park mitigation impact fee, and in
- SB 499 is a straightforward measure that strengthens and clarifies existing law under the Mitigation
- While it serves families every day as a neighborhood soccer park, the city's local hazard mitigation
- SB 499 is a straightforward measure that strengthens and clarifies existing law under the Mitigation
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, welcomed visiting students from De La Salle High School and a guest for Assembly Member Kalra, and then moved through a lengthy concurrence and third-reading agenda. Early actions included concurrence on ACR 21 honoring fallen Galt Police Officer Herminda Grewal, followed by a series of mostly noncontroversial bills on utilities, reclamation districts, housing, wildfire relief, mobile homes, environmental quality, health care coverage, and local government. Several measures were presented as technical, clarifying, or urgency bills, and many passed with unanimous or near-unanimous votes; notable items included AB 238 (wildfire mortgage forbearance), AB 571 (Southern California Veterans Cemetery permitting/CEQA exemption), AB 574 (health care coverage), AB 696 (lithium-ion battery safety advisory group), AB 1150 (airport car rental facility maintenance), AB 1154 (ADU parking standards), and SB 499 (impact fee deferrals for emergency-related parkland and utility infrastructure). SB 499 drew the most debate, with supporters emphasizing disaster resilience and dual-use parkland and an opponent arguing it would worsen housing-related fee burdens; it ultimately passed after a call was lifted.
The chamber also adopted SJR 4 urging restoration of NIH funding, and passed SB 230 expanding workers’ compensation presumptions to additional firefighters, SB 92 tightening density bonus law to curb loopholes, SB 782 creating disaster relief financing districts, SB 40 capping insulin copays at $35 and limiting step therapy, SB 362 strengthening small-business financing disclosures, SB 513 requiring workers access to training records, SB 489 requiring public agencies involved in housing approvals to post requirements online, SB 31 promoting recycled water use, SB 551 introducing normalization and dynamic security concepts in corrections, SB 639 extending flood-protection deadlines for Sacramento/Yuba projects, SB 653 defining environmentally sensitive vegetation management, AB 652 on air pollution, and SB 221 updating stalking law to include threats to pets. Several bills received recorded opposition or split votes, including SB 551, SB 439, SB 782, and SB 499, but most measures passed comfortably. The Assembly also concurred in Senate amendments on AB 516 and AB 1523, and later lifted the call on SB 499 to complete passage.
The session included an adjournment in memory of Rick Bryson of Long Beach, with Assembly Member Lowenthal highlighting Bryson’s athletic, business, and civic contributions. The day ended with reminders to secure floor managers for pending bills, a notice of the next day’s 10 a.m. floor session, and adjournment until Thursday, September 4th.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Apr 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- wildfire mitigation grant program to new counties?
- Mitigation at Cal OES.
- mitigation, seismic mitigation, coastal hazards, in managing specific specifically managing FEMA grants
- Adding on the mitigation actions in the blue box.
- I need to do something about flood mitigation in my community.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- , water planning, and wildlife habitat mitigation.
- Most of them are just for flood control, yeah.
- It's flood storage.
- the flood control benefits.
- Of the flood control dams with a boundary around that structure.
Bills:
HB294
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Feb 12th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Business and Insurance
Bills:
SB1732, SB1217, SB1443, SB1455, SB1457, SB1459, SB1465, SB1944, SB1946, SB1218, SB1942, SB1352, SB2132, SB1920, SB1285, SB1304, SB1305, SB1326, SB1590, SB1767
Keywords:
professional licensing, licensing fees, home inspection, home inspector, Construction Industries Board, CIB, contractor license, journeyman license, apprentice registration, alarm endorsement, code inspector, electrical license, plumbing license, mechanical license, permit fees, renewal fee, reciprocity, poultry house contractor, poultry house wiring, environmentally controlled poultry house
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Meeting: Senate Committee and House Committee on Capital Investment - 05/17/26
Transcript Highlights:
- hazard mitigation grant program, uh, and part of that flood hazard mitigation grants are to political
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- Minneapolis 13th Avenue Northeast flood Minneapolis 13th Avenue Northeast flood mitigation,<00:21
Summary:
The committee took up a large bonding bill and reviewed the final spreadsheet of capital investments. Chairs and members repeatedly thanked staff, House and Senate negotiators, and the Governor’s team for a collaborative process. The bill was described as a statewide package rather than a partisan one, with major funding for higher education asset preservation, DNR projects, public safety, transportation, the Met Council, veterans facilities, corrections, DEED/local projects, and a large water infrastructure section.
House Fiscal staff and Senate fiscal staff walked through the bill line by line. Highlights included University of Minnesota and Minnesota State asset preservation, education and language immersion school funding, DNR trail and flood mitigation projects, public safety facilities, local road and bridge grants, Met Council parks and I/I grants, veterans home and armory funding, corrections projects including the Faribault vocational expansion, and many local economic development and public facility projects across Greater Minnesota and the metro. The bill also included Public Facilities Authority water and wastewater grants, housing rehabilitation funding, historical society grants, a Minnesota Zoo operating transfer, airport appropriations, and several cancellations of prior appropriations to help finance the package.
Members generally praised the bill and the bipartisan work behind it. Some Republicans emphasized the one-time license fee reduction and affordability, while also saying DEED’s business development infrastructure funding was too low. Senator Nelson highlighted long-awaited transportation projects such as Highway 14 and township roads. Senator Dibble supported the transportation investments but criticized the bill for having no transit funding, calling that a major omission. No vote was recorded in the excerpt, but the discussion centered on final review and support for moving the bonding bill forward.