Scott Whitney
Scott D. Whitney is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’Mississippi Vally Division flood risk manager, and senior program manager for Operation Watershed-Recovery. He leads and supports national and regional efforts to achieve collaborative, comprehensive, and sustainable national flood risk management to improve public safety and reduce flood damage to industry and communities.
Whitney works on planning, development and implementation of Civil Works policy in the areas of flood damage reduction, flood risk management, and other flood-related areas.
As leader of Operation Watershed-Recovery, he establishes the management structure, process, and protocols for regional efforts by multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams to restore navigation and systems damaged by the 2011 Mississippi River flood. This monumental task is expected to cost in the range of $2 billion. It will require the coordination of four Corps divisions, nine Corps districts, nine states, and more than a dozen federal agencies.
Related Resources from Scott Whitney
Operation Watershed - Recovery: Responding to the Historic Mississippi River Flood of 2011
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Draft, 2011
