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City of Cape Canaveral Awarded $225,000 Grant to Update 2019 Vulnerability Assessment

By  //  February 22, 2023

this will be in conjunction with the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council

The City of Cape Canaveral has been awarded a $225,000 grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to update its 2019 Vulnerability Assessment.

BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – The City of Cape Canaveral has been awarded a $225,000 grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to update its 2019 Vulnerability Assessment.

This will be a critically important endeavor and will be done in conjunction with the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council.

This update will allow staff to modernize storm surge and sea level rise projections, evaluate the latest in resilience strategies, better determine best management practices in terms of climate-ready preparedness activities, and will allow the City to become eligible for new state funding opportunities that it previously would not have had access to.

This grant comes as part of a larger announcement made on February 13, 2023, in which the FDEP announced the awarding of over $28 million to develop or update county and municipal comprehensive vulnerability assessments across the state.

According to the FDEP, the 128 planning grants announced will result in 222 total local government vulnerability assessments.

Local governments that complete or update their vulnerability assessments via this grant funding will be eligible for inclusion in future iterations of the Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan, which proposes funding for the highest-ranked resilience and adaptation projects across the state.

Cape Canaveral was one of the first municipalities in Brevard County to complete a vulnerability assessment in response to climate-related challenges.

Staff, alongside the ECFRPC, completed the first iteration of the City’s vulnerability assessment in August 2019 when its results were unanimously accepted by City Council members.

The report employs several models developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to project possible sea-level rise scenarios and respective impacts on the City.

Timeframes evaluated as part of the report included 2040, 2070, and 2100.

The report, which is available on the City’s website, also models future sea-level rise and its effect on hurricane storm surge, as well as showcasing vulnerabilities to shallow coastal flooding, the 100-year floodplain, and the 500-year floodplain.

New forecast models, information, and resilience planning techniques have however necessitated the updating of this assessment in order to remain up-to-date with federal and state data sets.

The City’s 2019 vulnerability assessment directly led to the writing and adoption of its 2021 Resiliency Action Plan, which contains 56 actionable items (called Preparedness Targets) planned across a 30-year timeframe that are broken into implementation periods of current or ongoing; 5 years (2025); 15 years (2035); and 30 years (2050).

The City would like to thank the FDEP and the governor’s office for prioritizing resilience-based funding so that it may continue to improve the safety and security of residents, mitigate and adapt to weather and climate-related threats, and provide long-term future-ready services.

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