Floodplain Management
Floodplain Management: Sound Techniques to Improve Your Recovery
This issue of Disaster Recover Today, discusses floodplain management and its impact on FEMA reimbursements.
With the most common natural disaster in the United States being floods, exhaustive efforts have been made by Congress to reduce the damage and destruction including limiting development in the Special Flood Hazard Areas and mitigation measures such as elevating structures.
"Floodplain management requirements are to be treated as any other applicable code or standard."
"When a federal declaration occurs for flooding in a National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) community, numerous questions regarding what is paid for, and by whom."