PERI’s Floodplain Management Survey

Is flooding an issue for your community? Would you like to have your voice heard by floodplain policy makers? Take just a few minutes to participate in PERI’s short floodplain management survey and have your voice heard at the Third Assembly of the Gilbert F. White National Flood Policy Forum in March 2010. PERI will prepare a paper for attendees summarizing responses to this very brief survey. No names will be used in the paper. Please complete the survey by January 25, 2010. MORE...

FLOODHUG ...

The FLOODHUG !

Thanks to the efforts of Ken Leep the CFM, ASFPM Chapter 5 Director and California Central Valley HAZUS User Group coordinator there was a virtual FLOODHUG meeting at the 2009 Floodplain Management Association Annual Conference in San Jose, CA on September 8th.

On September 9th there will be a panel discussion - Advances in Hazard Assessment and Emergency Management - that will focus of the application of HAZUS-MH.

2009 Floodplain Management Association Annual Conference

Investing in Floodplains for Future Generations: Innovation in Land Use Strategies, Green Infrastructure, Technology and Community-Based Partnerships

September 8-11, 2009, The Fairmont, San Jose, California

Rich Davies / HAZUS.org will be moderating the panel discussion "Advances in Hazard Assessment and Emergency Management" at 4PM on Wednesday / September 9th

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California's water supply vulnerable to quakes, floods

The California Department of Water Resources has just released a study that concludes there is a 40 percent chance that a major earthquake will flood 27 delta islands between now and 2030, costing billions in repairs and knocking out the water source for 25 million Californians for more than a year.

Without intervention, it is estimated that about 140 levees of California's could fail in the next century due to storms or rising seas. An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 or greater could result in fatalities, flooding of islands and costs of $15 billion. In California levees have failed about 160 times in the past 109 years. READ MORE

California Department of Water Resources: Delta Risk Management Strategy - Final Phase 1 Report
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Flooding Risk Calculations Dangerously Underestimated

Robert Criss in a recent article in the Government Technology Emergency Management News has a good article addressing how underestimated flood risk leads to increased floodplain development and encourages projects that shouldn't be allowed. What is remarkable is that Mr. Criss does not even mention how HAZUS-MH could be used to improve things. READ MORE