CHARG is a coalition of 114 government, non-profit, and private entities working to address coastal hazard risks in the San Francisco Bay Area through regional coordination. Its vision is to collaborate across levels of government to implement integrated solutions that mitigate risk and protect communities. CHARG has established technical, funding, and policy working groups to pursue priorities like developing shared guidance on sea level rise projections, identifying high-risk areas, and studying multi-benefit adaptation strategies. The groups also aim to create consistent regulatory approaches, develop funding strategies, and reform policies that inhibit resilience projects.
4. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
CHARG Vision
Collaborate across all levels of government
and align resources to implement integrated
and multi-benefit coastal hazards solutions
to mitigate risk and improve and protect
quality of life and property along the San
Francisco Bay.
5. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Six Primary CHARG Goals
1. Improve regional coordination to address
coastal hazards adaptation
2. Identify and work together to solve
regional coastal hazards and flood
management issues
6. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Six Primary CHARG Goals
3. Exchange ideas and expertise, and
transfer technical knowledge
4. Provide a unified voice in support of
needed regional policies
7. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Six Primary CHARG Goals
5. Develop financing and funding strategies
6. Move public education forward
8. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Technical
Priority
Areas
Funding
Priority
Areas
Policy
Priority
Areas
Technical Funding
Three Working Groups Established
Policy
9. Reconnaissance Action Plan Implementation
Technical
Priority
Areas
Funding
Priority
Areas
Policy
Priority
Areas
GRANTS
Technical
Studies
Resiliency
Strategies &
Projects
Funding
Strategies
Legislative
Strategies
Legislative
Outreach
Funding
Outreach
Policy
Development
RESPECTED
SCIENCE
CHARG - Endorsed Resiliency
Projects
FUNDING
Monitoring & Improvement
How They’ll Work Together
11. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Leadership Team
Co-Chairs: Craig Conner,
Rohin Saleh
Members:
• Patrick Barnard
• V. Chandrasekar
• Ed Curtis
• Wendy Goodfriend
• Andy Gunther
• Sybil Hatch
• Liang Lee
• Lindy Lowe
• Ngoc Nguyen
• Dave Pine
• James Podolske
• Jim Porter
• Eric Simmons
• Mark Stacey
• Luisa Valiela
Technical
14. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Priority 2: Near-term Priorities
• Create an inventory of existing local, national,
and international guidance
• Establish unifying guidelines, incorporating
uncertainty, on how to use sea level rise
projections for future planning
• Draft unifying policy document for
consideration by CHARG stakeholders
Technical
16. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Priority 3: Near-term Priorities
• Study of an optimized suite of local, sub-regional, and
regional strategies that will mitigate impacts
• Range of predictive timelines and triggers,
considering community’s risk tolerance
• Strategy for long-term monitoring program to track
efficacy and share information
• Guidelines for local agencies and entities to make
land use, permitting, and capital project decisions.
Technical
18. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
• Identify areas vulnerable to higher shallow
groundwater levels
• Identify areas vulnerable to saltwater intrusion
in shallow aquifers
• Identify areas where surface water/
groundwater interaction may create impacts
(for ex., local flooding, contamination)
Priority 4: Near-term Priorities
Technical
20. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Leadership Team
Co-Chairs:
Norma Camacho, Matt Gerhart
Members:
Warner Chabot, Craig Conner, Mike Fuller, Joseph
LaClair, Dwayne Marsh, David Pine, James Porter, Mike
Sartor, Kathy Schaefer, Eric Simmons, Terri Wegener
Funding
21. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Chesapeake Bay Puget SoundSan Francisco Bay
Funding
Many Competing Interests
23. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Longer-range Goals
• Develop funding and financing strategies
• Facilitate a forum to develop collaborative
investment strategies
Funding
24. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
• Understand and align with pertinent existing
funding and financing mechanisms
• Develop educational materials for legislators
and funders.
Funding
Near-term Priorities
26. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Leadership Team
Co-Chairs:
Allison Brooks, Len Materman
Leaders:
Hank Ackerman, John Bourgeois, Warner Chabot, Steve
Goldbeck, Caitlin Sweeny, Laura Tam, Terri Wegener
Policy
28. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Goals
• Provide a unified voice in support of needed
policies
• Create policy strategies
• Serve as conduit of information and expertise
to inform development of policies and
procedures
Policy
29. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Goals (cont’d)
• Actively participate in policy development
and engage policy makers
• Create a regulatory workshop to examine
barriers and create consistent approaches
(i.e. permitting) for project implementation
Policy
30. CHARG – Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group
Near-term Priorities
• Inventory policies that impact resiliency
projects
• Pursue reform of policies that inhibit the
implementation of resiliency projects
• Explore and pursue the creation of
governance models that will enable the
implementation of resiliency projects
Policy