OHD - Dis_Svy: Red River 97 Appendix C

APPENDIX C

Survey Team Members and Itinerary

Survey team members serve on the basis of their personal expertise; i.e., they are not asked to represent the official position of their respective agencies. This report was compiled by a survey team composed of the following ten members:

Survey Itinerary

The field portion of the survey was conducted by nine of the ten members of the team over the four-day period May 27-30, 1997. Damages to the area around Grand Forks were so extensive that it was necessary to delay the start of the survey until hotel accommodations could be provided following restoration of water, power, and other infrastructure. Janice Lewis, who is the primary author of the hydraulic analysis, did not participate in the field portion of the survey. The survey team had an initial organizational meeting on Monday evening, May 26, and spent Tuesday, May 27, at the North Central River Forecast Center (NCRFC) in Chanhassen, Minnesota, and at the collocated National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC). On Wednesday, May 28, two team members (Hartman and Page) continued meetings with the NCRFC and NOHRSC, while other team members met with the Minnesota Department of Emergency Management in St. Paul, the FEMA Disaster Field Office in St. Paul, and the St. Paul District Office of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. The team made an evening flight to Grand Forks, North Dakota, on Wednesday, May 28. On Thursday, May 29, the team was interviewed by local media at the Eastern North Dakota National Weather Service Office (call sign FGF) in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Meetings with the staff of the FGF office continued on Thursday afternoon as the team broke up into smaller groups to meet with a number of local officials. On Friday, May 30, three team members (Bryant, Jensen, and Yorke) flew to Bismarck to meet with the Bismarck NWS Forecast Office, the U.S. Geological Survey, the FEMA Disaster Field Office in Bismarck, and state of North Dakota officials including the North Dakota Water Commission and the Department of Emergency Management. Meanwhile, other team members continued meetings with local officials. Professor Leon Osborne of the University of North Dakota was also interviewed on Friday. One team member (Johnson) drove to Fargo to meet with Lou Bennet of the spin-down NWS office, with Dennis Walaker of the City of Fargo, and with Terry Lejcher of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The entire team reconvened on the evening of Friday, May 30, to review initial findings and recommendations and to discuss writing assignments for the draft service assessment.

Survey Contacts

A partial list of survey team contacts follows: