#7 Lessons from a 500-year Record of Flood Elevations
Author: James H. Eychaner
Date: 2015; Pages: 25
For the Danube River at Passau, Germany, flood elevation records show that only half the actual intervals between 100-, 50-, and 5-year floods are within 50 percent of nominal. Climate change will add unquantified uncertainties to future flood risk estimates.
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“This report briefly summarizes the study’s results, drawing on interviews and documents from federal agencies, state and local governments, and nongovernmental organizations. We describe implementation processes and highlight lessons learned.” This is from the preface of the “Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force’s Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines.” Read the report here. …
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The President budget request for all agencies and programs for FY 2014 has been submitted to Congress for their action. Below is a summary of the FEMA programs that most significantly impact floodplain management for FY 14. More details on other agency budgets will be in the Washington report in the May Insider. See the…
ASFPM Welcomes New Associate Director CHAD BERGINNIS. He will commence this new role in January 2011, assisting Executive Director Larry Larson, Deputy Director George Riedel and all ASFPM Staff in oversight for national policy, administration, financial and records management, project management, and member services activities. Chad comes to ASFPM about as well prepared as possible!…
