US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG ® Value Engineering the Termination of the Blue River Flood Conveyance Channel Alan Schlindwein, PE US Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City, Missouri June 14, 2012 Robert Prager, PE Strategic Value Solutions, Inc Independence, Missouri

BUILDING STRONG ® Battle of Westport AKA: The Gettysburg of the West

BUILDING STRONG ® The Real Brush Creek (after USACE project)

BUILDING STRONG ® 1 st & 2 nd Battles of the Big Blue at Byram’s Ford

BUILDING STRONG ® Byram’s Ford

BUILDING STRONG ® Blue River Flood Conveyance Channel  35,000 cfs Flood Control Channel  New Bridges  Remapping of Floodplain

BUILDING STRONG ®  3 rd Battle of Byram’s Ford  Concrete Grade Control Structure

BUILDING STRONG ® Proposed Grade Control Structure

BUILDING STRONG ® Byram’s Ford Industrial Park

BUILDING STRONG ® Stated Goals  Prevent the headcutting at the battlefield location  Limit maximum flood elevation to pre- project conditions  Control velocity upstream to manage scour along the riverbanks

BUILDING STRONG ® Design  The structure was designed to stop head- cutting and control flood elevations upstream to pre-project conditions which in turn aided in managing scour at the battlefield location and along the riverbanks by controlling velocity.

BUILDING STRONG ® Externalities  Construction of the grade control structure would affect the channel upstream of this project and create pre-project conditions, i.e., flooding in areas that had not experienced flooding since the channel project began would now be flooded again.

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The Value Ah Ha!  The current flood levels can be maintained to limit maximum flood elevation to below pre-project conditions  Grade controls can be distributed along the river rather than at a concrete waterfall Perfection Cost Functions 0% 100% Poor Value Best Value

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Stated Goals  PROTECT THE CHANNEL  PRESERVE THE BATTLEFIELD  By Mimicking Natural Processes

BUILDING STRONG ® Work with River Continuum Riffle Pool Sequence Place at end of Bend

BUILDING STRONG ® River Profile - Newbury & Proposed GCS

BUILDING STRONG ® Grade Control at KC Zoo

BUILDING STRONG ® Rock Grade Control Structure

BUILDING STRONG ® 2000 cfs flow

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