Hurricane Katrina Aftermath Reports

Friday, September 23, 2005

• NRCS continues to meet with other groups to determine recovery plan. NRCS attended a meeting called by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Coast Guard to determine how to remove debris from waterways:
  • The Coast Guard has identified 73 boats either pushed into marshes or grounded that will need to be removed. If the Coast Guard can get to these boats, they are pumping out the fuel.
  • Marine Police are concerned because there is a great deal of submerged debris.
• There is a wildfire in south Mobile County, near Bayou Le Batre
• Ronnie Davis, Soil Conservation Technician in Geneva County, Alabama, is a member of the Slocum, Alabama, National Guard unit. His unit was called up to assist in Hurricane Katrina relief. The only maps available were commercial roadmaps. Davis is very familiar with digital data available from NRCS. He contacted his home NRCS office, who in turn called the Alabama GIS specialist. Through the NRCS network, the National Cartography and Geospatial Center, Fort Worth, TX put together two DVDs that contained all the 1:24,000 DRGs, 1:100,000 DRGs, 1:250,000 DRGs, all the MrSid compressed DRG county mosaics, and the corresponding indexes covering the entire southern portion of Mississippi (Interstate 20 to the Gulf). Fort Worth put the material together quickly and shipped it overnight to Davis.
   

Ronnie Davis, Soil Conservation Technician, Geneva County, AL (r), used digital data provided by the National Cartography and Geospatial Center, Fort Worth, TX, to develop maps for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in the Ocean Springs, Mississippi, area

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