*You should receive an email from the Reservoir Center asking you to create an account for tracking and security purposes – this will greatly simplify check-in on the day of the meeting. Please do this … Continued
The Strengthening Coastal Communities Resilience in the Great Lakes Closing Workshop was held to facilitate collaborative partnerships between local community leaders in Great Lakes communities to catalyze the implementation of resilience strategies that address unique … Continued
The Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC) is a federal advisory council established to review and make recommendations to FEMA on matters related to the national flood mapping program. TMAC members include a broad group of … Continued
Science and technology for flood hazard identification and flood risk assessments has advanced throughout the 50-year history of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). While FEMA has made progress modernizing the flood mapping process, there … Continued
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a leader in the development of engineering modeling tools for mapping flood hazards. Since these tools are developed by the federal government, these tools are in the public … Continued
Dam Failure Inundation Mapping is a valuable tool to increase community awareness of the risks should a dam fail. Dams have different hazard ratings depending upon the condition of the dam and/or the impact downstream … Continued
The National Weather Service (NWS) is in the midst of a national rollout of new transformational forecast flood inundation mapping (FIM) services to the nation. These new services complement the issuance of flood watches and … Continued
FEMA established the Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) program to collaborate with state and local floodplain management programs to map the nation’s flood hazards. The program has been very successful in supporting and strengthening state and … Continued
Hydrology and hydraulics (H&H) are two foundational engineering components used to produce flood hazard mapping. Hydrology focuses on estimating the amount of water generated during a flood event, while hydraulics uses that information to determine … Continued
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is currently working on modernizing and updating probable maximum precipitation (PMP) and precipitation frequency estimates to account for future climate variability. These two extreme precipitation datasets for decades have … Continued