As previously reported, on December 15, 2011 FEMA released its revised mapping procedures for de-accredited levee systems, the comment period for which expired on January 30, 2012. Many communities, engineering companies, and other commentators submitted comments which can be accessed at Federal Rulemaking Portal and the National Flood Insurance Program Levees Comment website. The new guidelines are a positive… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Levees and Flood Control RSS FeedFEMA releases revised analysis and mapping procedures for non-accredited levees; public comments due by January 30, 2012
Posted in Levees and Flood ControlOn December 15, 2011, FEMA released its proposed solution for Revised Analysis and Mapping Procedures for Non-Accredited Levees. The proposed procedures will replace the “without levee analysis” FEMA employed in its Flood Insurance Rate Maps, which FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate suspended in March 2011 as a result of Congressional pressure. The new mapping procedures will… Continue Reading
Corps of Engineers Launch National Levee Database: Mapping Tool Allows Users to See Federal Levee Systems, Ratings, FIRMs, and Real-time Weather
Posted in Levees and Flood ControlIn 2007, Congress tasked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a daunting task: create a user-friendly database of the nation’s estimated 100,000 miles of levees. Last Thursday, the Corps launched the National Levee Database, which currently includes 92% of federal levee systems (i.e., systems owned, operated and maintained by the Corps; systems constructed by… Continue Reading
NFIP Reauthorization: Senate Proposes Mandatory Flood Insurance for “Residual Risk Areas” Protected by Levees
Posted in Levees and Flood ControlWe posted earlier that the U.S. House of the Representatives passed H.R. 1309 to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which extended phase-in of actuarial rates and delayed the full effect of levee de-accreditation decisions to allow communities to improve flood control structures. We also previously reported that the Senate has increasingly becoming more concerned about the Federal… Continue Reading
A Risky Proposition: Proposed Use of Catastropohic Modelling for the National Flood Insurance Program
Posted in Economic Development, Levees and Flood ControlBecause of disasters such as the tsunami in Japan, tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and the Yangtze River in China, the concept of “risk” has recently received a significant amount of attention. Munich Reinsurance (an insurance company for insurers) recently reported that worldwide losses for the first half of… Continue Reading
National Flood Insurance Reauthorization: House Introduces H.R. 1309
Posted in Economic Development, Levees and Flood ControlThe House has passed H.R. 1309 today which would reauthorize the 41-year old National Flood Insurance Program for an additional 5 years. The NFIP allows property owners within floodways in participating communities to purchase flood insurance from the government at heavily subsidized rates in order to defray the cost to the federal government for repairing damage to… Continue Reading
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