The crazy, chaotic and killer weather of 2011: climate change or coincidence?
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:04:11 -0800

"I don't want to be an alarmist, but we have make judicious decisions about where we build and how we live in a changing world, she said. "We no longer know how to draw 100-year flood plains because the floods are less predictable, for example. ...

Flooding dominates much of Cleveland's year
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:56:22 -0800

Discussion of how to pay for a floodplain study began early in the year. Part of a property tax increase requested in March by city staff would have used flood mapping as a remedy to bring properties into compliance with Federal Emergency Management ...

Strategies for disaster-risk reduction
Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:53:52 -0800

An open, transparent planning process for infrastructure development is crucial with broad participation of key people, especially in critical areas of river banks, slopes and floodplains. Floodplain management. To re-establish natural flood areas , ...

FEMA alleges floodway incursion
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:09:39 -0800

The county is responsible for enforcing its floodplain management ordinance because it participates in the National Flood Insurance Program. That participation was threatened last year after a waterfront landowner in Sagle expanded his home without a ...

Legal issue risks National Flood Program availability in Mississippi
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:58:10 -0800

(Submitted photo) pascagoula, Mississippi -- Amending state law to allow local governments to enforce federal floodplain codes at hunting and fishing camps is critical to ensure residents can buy property insurance through the National Flood Insurance ...

Thai floods leave tech firms pondering
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:12:36 -0800

As the last floodwaters recede, after killing 600, the crisis is exposing just how heavily the world's technology sector leans on a drab industrial zone in a floodplain north of Bangkok. If certain PCs, hard drives or other electronics are suddenly ...

Barletta hopes to get better acquainted with Valley
Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:34:52 -0800

"That would take care of all flood victims if they did get a loan" from the federal government, he said. Barletta also is working to get the Army Corps of Engineers to study the Susquehanna River's complete flood plain from New York to Maryland, ...

Panel: Corps did all it could in face of flooding
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:19:32 -0800

The role flood plain development played in the operation of the reservoir system proper to and during this year's flood. The Army Corps of Engineers needs a 21st-century field guide as good as its officers and engineers to deal with the climatic ...

Map updates change some flood plain statuses
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:08:00 -0800

Homes on Shiloh Street NW in Jackson township have been updated by FEMA to be in a flood plain . By Tim Botos Recent modifications of flood plain areas within Stark County caught property owners by surprise, though the change was in the works for more ...

Carthage council awaits details of patrol car, flood plain maps
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:32:23 -0800

The flood zone map that was noted in the second November meeting, was revisited by the council. The council hopes emergency management officials can provide an informative meeting in January or February. The meeting will interpret the details of the ...

Upgrade flood forecasting
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:14:06 -0800

It also should move to re-establish areas along rivers that long ago served as natural overflow areas during floods. And, it should make flood insurance mandatory on any property in a known flood plain , and make the rates reflect the risk.

Comfort town meeting set to look at newly revised flood plain maps
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:26:03 -0800

14, to consider effects of the newly revised flood plain in the Comfort area. The meeting will end before noon. FEMA has recently revised the Comfort area Flood Plain Map and the County has increased enforcement of the 1986 regulations.

Milltown Dam site work finishing
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:15:09 -0800

The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has a long to-do list of work developing its Two Rivers State Park facilities, but the floodplain , new river channels and riverbank vegetation are finished. So is removal of the bypass channel, ...

Group takes up land issues
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:44:12 -0800

City resident David Holley wanted to know why his home is now considered in the city flood plain when it never was before. Now I'm spending $500 of mandatory flood insurance, Holley said. I thought we built all of this flood retention stuff around ...

Town gains grant for Roaring Branch work
Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:02:57 -0800

Bennington Planning Director and Zoning Administrator Daniel Monks said the DEC Ecosystem Restoration grant will aid in restoring the floodplain along the Roaring Branch that was largely destroyed by Irene. The August storm dumped large amounts of rain ...

Geoff Gove: New Year's Eve of Destruction in Bloomfield
Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:14:42 -0800

You don't build on a floodplain . There's a cost/benefit analysis that needs to be understood . Homes along that river have lost 5 to 10 feet of their property due to riverbank erosion. There are homes that are consistently flooding the water has to ...

NYC helps upstate towns prepare for future floods
Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:58:58 -0800

The DEP announced in December that it has committed $7 million to improving flood studies and flood plain maps in the watershed west of the Hudson River to limit damage from major storms. That's in addition to $2.7 million it already had made available ...

Work begins on flood plain on two area watersheds
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:03:18 -0800

Planning is beginning on flood plain work for those who live in the Solomon and Smoky Hill watersheds by FEMA and the Kansas Department of Agriculture. This is the beginning of a very long process, said Gina Bell, Dickinson County planning and zoning ...

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:17:47 -0800

This rich story of the emergence of the Crescent City from its unlikely floodplain site is the best history of early New Orleans ever written. Despite Powell's claim that the Big Easy was an accidental, improvised city, in this respect it was not ...

Bruce Highway flood threat remains
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:19:58 -0800

Traffic engineer Greg Miszkowycz says Rockhampton was cut off for several weeks earlier this year at the Yeppen Flood Plain south of the city and that is still a problem area. "Apart from the safety issues, it's a big ticket item that the RACQ feels is ...