Completed Projects

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  • Community Resilience Guide for Repetitive Flood Loss - Completed: September 2023. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Partner: Coastal States Organization. Committees Engaged: Flood Mitigation, Floodplain Regulations. Together, ASFPM and CSO developed the Community Resilience Guide for Repetitive Flood Loss, a web-based guide that consists of GIS training, case studies, and other resources dedicated to assisting local floodplain managers with reducing repetitive flood losses in their … Continued
  • NOAA Digital Coast Fellow 2020-2022 - Completed: September 2023. Funding: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Partner: Coastal States Organization. Committee Overlap: Coastal Issues. Eleanor Rappolee was the 2020 NOAA Digital Coast Fellow working with the ASFPM'S Flood Science Center and the Coastal States Organization on the Community Resilience Guide for Repetitive Flood Loss project. Eleanor holds a masters degree from Michigan State … Continued
  • NAI Legal Guide for Flood Risk Management - Completed: May 2023. Funding: ASFPM. Committee Engaged: No Adverse Impact. The Flood Science Center in partnership with the NAI Policy Committee has developed a new NAI Legal Guide. The No Adverse Impact Legal Guide for Flood Risk Management supplements and helps update the legal resources that support NAI and flood risk management overall. It is … Continued
  • Floodway Outreach Project - Completed: March 2023. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Committee Overlap: Mapping & Engineering Standards. Floodways are a tool that may be provided to communities by FEMA to assist in the community’s floodplain management. Communities are routinely provided floodways that include a surcharge without information on the impact of the surcharge. This packet is intended to … Continued
  • Coastal Hazard Regulations in Great Lakes States - Completed: March 2023. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Committee Overlap: Coastal Issues and Floodplain Regulations. In conjunction with their public trust responsibilities and land use management authorities, several coastal states have enacted programs to address coastal hazards. This document is a summary of noteworthy coastal hazard regulations that states have enacted on the Great Lakes. … Continued
  • Community Flood Event Documentation - Completed: February 2023. Funding: Woolpert Inc. in support of the NOAA Office for Coastal Management Water Initiative. Partner: Blue Urchin. Committee Overlap: Coastal Issues. The goal of this project is to design, develop and implement a Community Flood Documentation platform that collects, stores and shares flood event data and documents as they relate to the … Continued
  • ReduceFloodRisk.org – Flood Mitigation Library - Launched: May 2022. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Committees Engaged: Flood Mitigation, Flood Insurance, Nonstructural Floodproofing, Risk Communication & Outreach. ReduceFloodRisk.org was developed by the Association of State Floodplain Managers to help property owners and buyers in flood prone areas identify strategies to reduce their property's risk of flooding. ASFPM has taken mitigation resources from … Continued
  • Improving Product Delivery Study - Completed: December 2021. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Committee Overlap: Mapping & Engineering Standards. The primary objective of this project was to better understand what format and delivery would be most useful from the perspective of the community officials who use the products to enforce floodplain management and communicate risk, as well as the policyholders … Continued
  • Data Visualization Dashboards for FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 Projected Premium Change Analysis - Completed: September 2021. Funding: The Pew Charitable Trusts; ASFPM. Committee Overlap: Flood Insurance. The ASFPM Flood Science Center has created three new easy-to-use data visualization dashboards that show the projected premium changes for policyholders by geography, using datasets from FEMA's analysis of NFIP policyholder information. The data are broken down across four categories — ranging … Continued
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of the FEMA Regulatory Floodway: Original Intent vs. Present Practice - Completed: May 2021. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Committee Overlap: Mapping & Engineering Standards, Floodplain Regulations. ASFPM reviewed the current guidelines and policies associated with floodway mapping and managing development in mapped floodways to evaluate whether these procedures support efforts to responsibly manage development within the most hazardous part of the floodplain (i.e. with the … Continued
  • Community Flood Notebook - Completed: December 2020. Funding: ASFPM Foundation. Partner: Wes Shaw / Blue Urchin. Committee Overlap: Coastal Issues. The Community Flood Notebook prototype platform, researched and developed by ASFPM’s Flood Science Center, provides a starting point for a standardized, comprehensive platform for storage and retrieval of flood event data by the public in partnership with local professional … Continued
  • National Resilience Standards for Floodproofing (Barrier) Products - Completed: November 2020. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology’s Flood APEX program. Committee Overlap: Nonstructural Floodproofing, Flood Mitigation. This project leveraged a decade worth of effort to complete the development and utilization of national resilience standards for floodproofing (barrier) products (ANSI/FM Approvals 2510) and ASFPM’s National Flood Barrier Testing & Certification Program (NFBTCP) by … Continued
  • Strengthening Coastal Counties’ Resilience: An Interactive, Multi-Modal Training Program for Local Governments - Completed: September 2020. Funding: National Association of Counties Research Foundation. Partners: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Coastal States Organization. Through a 2017 National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Resilience Grant, the National Association of Counties (NACo) – in partnership with the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) and the Coastal States Organization (CSO) – launched … Continued
  • NOAA Digital Coast Fellow 2018-2020 - Completed: July 2020. Funding: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Partner: Coastal States Organization. Committee Overlap: Coastal Issues. Alexis Cunningham was the 2018 Digital Coast Fellow, placed in a joint position with CSO and the Association of State Floodplain Managers. Alexis led efforts by CSO and ASFPM to promote and improve FEMA’s CRS program as a … Continued
  • Outreach of 2019 ASFPM Conference Sessions - Completed: May 2020. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Committee Overlap: Professional Development & Continuing Education. The ASFPM Annual National Conference has numerous concurrent session presentations on flood insurance and floodplain management related topics that could support and educate local officials on flood insurance and floodplain management related issues. Unfortunately, many local officials who would most … Continued
  • Building Coastal Resilience through Capital Improvements Planning - Completed: March 2020. Funding: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Partner: American Planning Association. Capital improvements are often the largest investments made by communities. In coastal communities, where capital improvements are being driven by growth and development as well as degradation by extreme weather events and climate hazards, capital improvement costs are even higher. Because capital … Continued
  • Post-Disaster Compliance & Building Community Capability - Completed: March 2020. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Committee Overlap: Flood Insurance, Floodplain Regulations. This project’s objective is to research, consult and document current systems in place for substantial damage determinations where a community’s capacity may be exceeded: 1) Volunteer local official cadre through state ASFPM chapter or other organization 2) EMAC and 3) HMTAP/FEMA … Continued
  • Update of ASFPM’s 1996 “Addressing Your Community’s Flood Problems: A Guide for Elected Officials” - Completed: February 2020. Funding: ASFPM Foundation; Westfield Insurance Foundation. In 1996, ASFPM published “ADDRESSING YOUR COMMUNITY’S FLOOD PROBLEMS: A Guide for Elected Officials.” The document was popular and has been an important guide for educating elected officials on the impacts of flooding, identification of flood risk, flood preparation, post-flood actions, and resources to assist their community. It also identified successful … Continued
  • Flood Mapping for the Nation - Completed: January 2020. Funding: ASFPM Foundation. Since the initial publication of the Flood Mapping for the Nation report in 2013, the report has been cited numerous times as part of other academic and congressional research and was directly quoted by Representative Maxine Waters (CA) in a letter to a congressional budget subcommittee to justify increased … Continued
  • Institute for Building Technology and Safety Puerto Rico Advisory Panel Project - Completed: October 2019. Funding: Puerto Rico Planning Board. Partners: American Planning Association; Build Change; International Code Council; Diversity Professional Service; EStudios Te’cnicoc Inc. The Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was selected for the proposal by the Puerto Rico Planning Board (PRPB) titled, “Puerto Rico Department of Economic … Continued
  • NOAA Digital Coast Fellow 2016-2018 - Completed: March 2019. Funding: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration & ASFPM Foundation. Partner: Coastal States Organization. With funding from NOAA and the ASFPM Foundation, ASFPM partnered with the Coastal States Organization to integrate and update guides to help coastal communities, including ASFPM’s Coastal No Adverse Impact Handbook (2007) and the ASFPM Foundation’s Holistic Coasts report … Continued
  • Access to the Authoritative Flood Model - Completed: March 2019. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. The flood models associated with flood studies are valuable data needed for managing development in the SFHA. ASFPM is aware of a number of entities that provide access to flood models. ASFPM documented state and local authorities who provide access to flood engineering models and evaluated the … Continued
  • NAI How-to Guides - Completed: 2013-2019. Funding: ASFPM & ASFPM Foundation. In furtherance of ASFPM’s No Adverse Impact initiative, the association has developed a series of NAI How-to Guides for each of the building blocks in the No Adverse Impact: A Toolkit for Common Sense Floodplain Management. They include: Mitigation (completed in 2013) Infrastructure (completed in 2013) Planning (completed … Continued
  • Integrating NAI and the Community, Health and Resource Management (CHARM) Tools and Training Platform - Completed: November 2018. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Partners: Texas Community Watershed Partnership; Florida Floodplain Management Association. ASFPM and the Texas Community Watershed Partnership at Texas A&M University AgriLife Extension Service worked together to integrate their CHARM scenario planning platform (www.communitycharm.org) with ASFPM’s NAI approach. The project team, with help from the Florida Floodplain Management … Continued
  • Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Planning Guide - Completed: February 2018. Funding: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Partner: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management. ASFPM and NOAA Office for Coastal Management lead the Digital Coast Partnership in working with coastal communities on the Great Lakes to improve community resilience through the comprehensive planning and management within coastal watersheds. The major outcome … Continued
  • Floodplain Management 2017: State Programs Assessment - Completed: February 2018. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Partner: Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado. ASFPM last updated the State Floodplain Management Programs report in 2010. This project is updating the status of state level floodplain management in the United States as of 2017. In partnership with the University of Colorado’s Natural Hazards … Continued
  • Social Vulnerability & Urban Flood Modeling - Completed: February 2018. Funding: Argosy Foundation. One of the main goals of this Argosy Foundation funded research was to understand how socioeconomic conditions and social vulnerability could be included in local flood risk management and planning in urban areas. ASFPM, through its No Adverse Impact initiative, advocates for comprehensive flood risk planning and management, which … Continued
  • Floodplain Management Professionals Survey of Flood Insurance Successes & Concerns - Completed: January 2018. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. To identify concerns and successes in implementing the NFIP, floodplain management or similar professions were canvassed about their professional experience in floodplain management. This canvass was conducted using a digital questionnaire and developed in conjunction with the OFIA’s staff. The questionnaire was designed to gather information on … Continued
  • CRS Green Guide: Improving Coastal Resiliency Through Community Engagement - Completed: December 2017. Funding: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Partner: Coastal States Organization. ASFPM partnered with the Coastal States Organization on a National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Grant related to the CRS program. The overall goal of the project was to increase the number of communities making voluntary, effective measures to … Continued
  • Building Community Resilience through Integrated Risk Modeling - Completed: November 2017. Funding: Department of Housing and Urban Development. Partners: AECOM, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management, American Planning Association & National Association of Counties. FSC worked with AECOM through HUD funding in partnership with NOAA OCM, APA and NACo to explore strategies to more effectively integrate mitigation planning into the … Continued
  • Best Practices & Case Studies Compendium - Completed: October 2017. Funding: ASFPM Foundation. Best practice case studies are an effective tool to promote higher standards in floodplain management and are a routine component of ASFPM projects. The project involved indexing and electronically archiving case studies and best practices. By making these case studies more usable and accessible, it is more likely that … Continued
  • K-12 Education for Floodplain Management Gap Assessment - Completed: October 2017. Funding: ASFPM Foundation. This project researched the state of current K-12 flood education nationally and identified and compiled a catalog of education programs, guidance and materials. Additionally, an evaluation of potential flood education gaps was conducted looking at the current practices, programs and materials. The gap evaluation results provide some specific focus … Continued
  • National Flood Mitigation & Floodproofing Workshop - Completed: August 2017. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. The workshop was held Aug. 14-17, 2017 in New Jersey and provided information on implementation of flood hazard mitigation actions that support the NFIP. The workshop presented up-to-date information on current mitigation techniques in the following categories: regulatory, planning, structural protection through retrofitting, floodproofing, etc. and risk … Continued
  • ASFPM Foundation Special Library Collections - Completed: June 2017 Funding: ASFPM Foundation In conjunction with the ASFPM Flood Resource Library project and thanks to the generous support of the ASFPM Foundation, the Association of State Floodplain Managers is able to showcase these donated library collections, each designed to advance the science that mitigates the losses, costs and human suffering caused by … Continued
  • Naturally Resilient Communities - Completed: January 2017. Funding: Kresge Foundation. Partners: The Nature Conservancy, American Planning Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, National Association of Counties & Sasaki Associates. Communities today are facing more challenges than ever before. From weather-related disasters and public health crises to needs for economic development, the demands on our communities’ limited resources are growing. … Continued
  • Floodplain Management 2016: Local Programs Assessment - Completed: December 2016. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. This was the inaugural report on the state of local floodplain management programs throughout the nation. For more than 20 years ASFPM has produced data at the state level focused on state programs, authorities and activities. However, the knowledge of local floodplain management programs was limited and … Continued
  • Managing Coastal Hazard Risks On Wisconsin’s Dynamic Great Lakes Shoreline - Completed: December 2016. Funding: Wisconsin Coastal Management Program. Coastal hazards have been a Great Lakes concern since high lake levels caused significant damage to coastal properties in the 1950s, the 1970s and again in the 1980s. During that period the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program funded projects to assess the coastal hazards on Lake Michigan and … Continued
  • Subdivision Design in Flood Hazard Areas - Completed: October 2016. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Partner: American Planning Association. ASFPM was invited to partner with the American Planning Association in a project funded by FEMA to update APA’s 1997 publication, Subdivision Design in Flood Hazard Areas (PAS Report No. 473, 1997). The new PAS Report was broadened from the strict subdivision approach … Continued
  • Bluff Stability and Erosion Analysis - Completed: June 2016. Funding: Wisconsin Coastal Management Program. Erosion poses a significant risk to development along coasts, and unstable bluffs can be particularly problematic. The Wisconsin Coastal Management Program funded ASFPM and Emeritus Professor David Mickelson–UW Madison for a second, one- year period to conduct a bluff stability analysis on the high bluffs on the … Continued
  • Natural Defenses in Action - Completed: June 2016. Funding: Allied World Assurance Company. Partner: National Wildlife Federation. The National Wildlife Federation requested ASFPM assist in developing a set of climate change adaptation case studies to highlight ecological approaches to natural hazard risk reduction. Natural Defenses in Action highlights the important role natural and nature-based approaches can play in reducing the … Continued
  • Ecosystems Services in Flood Risk Assessment - Completed: February 2015. Funding: McKnight Foundation. Partner: Earth Economics. ASFPM worked with Earth Economics in a McKnight Foundation funded effort that focused on ways to incorporate floodplain natural and beneficial functions into FEMA flood risk mitigation activities. The project involved promoting natural capital projects as part of the inventory of mitigation actions and tested the … Continued
  • Coastal No Adverse Impact Workshops - Completed: 2006-2015. Funding: Varied. ASFPM developed a Coastal No Adverse Impact Handbook (funded by NOAA) and materials for one-day Coastal No Adverse Impact workshops. In addition to requests from ASFPM chapters, these workshops have been well received by NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserves. NERRs have funded five of the workshops and developed a hands-on mapping … Continued
  • NOAA Digital Coast Fellow 2012-2014 - Completed: September 2014. Funding: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Partner: The Nature Conservancy. ASFPM and The Nature Conservancy received funding for a two-year coastal fellow position. For the ASFPM component of the project, a framework was developed to guide county planners and conservationists through the process of prioritizing locations for potential, multi-beneficial wetland restoration to … Continued
  • Economic Assessment of Green Infrastructure Report - Completed: July 2014. Funding: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Partners: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Eastern Research Group. ASFPM’s Flood Science Center staff supported NOAA and Eastern Research Group in conducting a study to assess the economic benefits of green infrastructure as a method of reducing the negative effects of flooding in Duluth, MN and … Continued
  • Strategies to Establish Flood Frequencies Associated with Flood Event High Water Marks - Completed: June 2014. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Observed high water marks that document historic flood events can be valuable data to reduce the uncertainty associated with predicted flood elevations and inundation areas on the extensive portions of the nation's streams that do not have streamgages. These HWMs are an extremely valuable complement to the … Continued
  • Floodplain Conservation as a Flood Mitigation Strategy: Examining Costs and Benefits - Completed: February 2014. Funding: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Partner: Resources for the Future. ASFPM was invited by Resources for the Future to consult on this study to evaluate how local governments can utilize floodplain conservation as a flood damage reduction strategy. This study evaluated one such investment for a greenway along the Meramec River … Continued
  • A Strategy to Reduce the Risks and Impacts of Dams on Floodplains - Completed: July 2013. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. State and local floodplain managers (ASFPM members and others) need to better understand how dams affect floodplains and floodplain management. The final report includes an analysis of the relationship of dams to the floodplain and recommendations on how to better integrate dams into floodplain management and flood … Continued
  • Floodway Encroachment Standard: Minimizing Cumulative Adverse Impact - Completed: June 2013. Funding: ASFPM. This report reviews the origin, use and establishment of regulatory floodways and provides an assessment of the impact of encroachments based upon allowing a 1-foot increase in flood elevations during the regulatory flood. The assessment evaluated impacts on the physical characteristics of the floodway (floodway width, water velocity and area … Continued
  • FEMA EMI HAZUS/GIS Course for Floodplain Managers (E176) - Completed: April 2012. Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Partner: POLIS Center. ASFPM in conjunction with the POLIS Center in Indianapolis, IN assisted FEMA in the development of an Emergency Management Institute approved training course titled - HAZUS and GIS Applications for Floodplain Managers. The course is intended to meet the training needs of floodplain managers … Continued

 

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