Coastal Data Exchange Kauai Online Hazard Assessment Tool (KOHA) --Hello and thank you --I’m Garrett with the County of Kauai. Quick Overview of the presentation Brief History of the KOHA Tool and a run through of what it can do and it’s current and past use Garrett Johnson, SR GIS Analyst County of Kauai IT Division/GIS J Schneider

Quick History of Kauai KOHA Tool ---Brief History of KOHA (Old ArcIMS Tool) --Thank NOAA/PSC/NOAA CSC for all of there assistance and for hosting and creating the KOHA Tool Kaua`i Online Hazard Assessment Tool (KOHA) In partnership with the County of Kaua`i, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center (CSC) and Pacific Services Center (PSC) created the Kaua`i Online Hazard Assessment Tool (KOHA) to support the County of Kauai's natural hazard related planning, permitting, and outreach activities. KOHA is an intranet based geographic information system (GIS) tool for identifying the hazard risks for any user defined location on Kaua`i. Although designed to address all hazards, the initial focus of KOHA is coastal and riverine flooding. The County of Kaua`i is dedicated to mitigating the effects of all natural hazards. The county's Department of Public Works is responsible for reviewing building permits to minimize public and private losses from flooding. The Department utilizes the recently released Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs) published in September of 2005 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for determining if proposed building sites are within flood prone areas. Subsequently, the Division of Engineering within the Department is responsible for reviewing building permits and requires property owners to build structures in accordance with the County of Kaua`i Floodplain Management Ordinance (No. 630/696). The current version of KOHA is available from any desktop computer at the County of Kaua`i with an internet browser. By going to the KOHA web page county staff can rapidly and accurately identify the FEMA designated flood zone(s) for any parcel or proposed building site within the county. KOHA will also determine if the parcel or proposed building site intersects the Special Management Area (SMA) and the Tsunami Evacuation Zone. Once these three flood hazard risks have been determined, KOHA generates a report containing the specific risk information along with a detailed map including a satellite image of the area.   KOHA is intended to save time by improving access to and retrieval of hazard related information that is needed to support decision making.

NOAA CSC/NOAA PSC partnership Thank you again for hosting at CSC years after we anticipated

KOHA Tool on Kauai.gov

Current KOHA ArcGIS Server and Adobe Flex

Tsunami Layers Tsunami Layer

Flood Layers Flood Layers

Conservation Layers

KOHA Basemaps and Imagery

Search Tools Search by Parcel Search by Address Search by clicking on the map

Zooming to parcel or address Search Results box on left

Selected parcel Download Report

Print or save report User can view, print, or save report as a PDF. Note: The map has zoom in and out tools when in report view

Report creation

Map Tools Buffer and draw /Identify /Web Link /Measure

Web Link Current Map view web link

Draw and Buffer Tools --Even Liquor Department has used this functionality

Measure Tools

Identify Tool

Help Excellent Help for all tools and layers

KOHA use data (Google Analytics) --Google Analytics for KOHA Tool 300 to 600 monthly users from outside the County. --Do not have the internal numbers, but many departments use it. --ESRI ELA --Public Use (Notice Spike around a possible Tsunami threat)

Coastal Data Exchange Kauai Online Hazard Assessment Tool (KOHA) Thank you! Garrett Johnson, SR GIS Analyst County of Kauai IT Division/GIS J Schneider