DATE: March 26, 2020
TO: Board of Mayor and Aldermen
FROM: Eric Stuckey, City Administrator
Paul Holzen, Director of Engineering
William Banks, Staff Engineer
SUBJECT:
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Consideration Of A DRAFT Project Partnership Agreement Between The Department Of The Army And City Of Franklin, Tennessee For The Harpeth River Flood Risk Management Project. (U.S. Army Corp Of Engineers Home Raising Program)
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Purpose
The purpose of this memo is to provide information to the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BOMA) concerning COF Contract No. 2020-0071, a DRAFT Project Partnership Agreement Between the Department of the Army and City of Franklin, Tennessee, For the Harpeth River Flood Risk Management Project, also known as the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Home Raising Program.
Background
The May 2010 flood event created devastation throughout the Harpeth River Watershed and caused 4 fatalities and over $480 million in direct economic impacts in the Harpeth River Watershed alone. For this reason, the Department of the Army represented by the United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) conducted a preliminary reconnaissance of the Harpeth River Watershed and found over 850 structures in the regulated floodplain within the basin located in the City of Brentwood, City of Franklin, Williamson County, and Davidson County. In addition, they found aquatic ecosystem issues throughout the basin primarily involving stream bank erosion and loss of riparian buffers.
On June 13, 2013, the USACE, City of Franklin, Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, City of Brentwood, and Williamson County signed an initial Feasibility Study Agreement to analyze alternative flood risk management options. The feasibility study evaluated numerous flood risk management options and provided an analysis of cost and benefits associated with various projects. The USACE determined that two projects were considered economically justified. These two projects included Frankli...
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