North Carolina CTS North Carolina CTS Committee Meeting #4Committee Meeting #4

January 16, 2001

Today’s AgendaToday’s Agenda

Status updates Demonstration of scoping tool Information Management System “NCFloodmaps.com” demo Working Group reports/updates Discussion Items Agenda items for CTS Meeting #5

Contract/Delivery Order Negotiations (John Dorman)

Basin Plans/Flood Data Delivery Order Development (Abdul Rahmani)

LIDAR DO and QA/QC(Gary Thompson)

Community needs/scoping (Ken Taylor)

Status UpdatesStatus Updates

Coordination with Federal Agencies (John Dorman) January 8-11, 2001, trip to

Washington, D.C. FEMA and State Staff:

Participated in FGDC Coordination Group meeting Met with USACE, HUD, DOT, USGS, and NASA

about funding and mapping activities Also briefed/updated NC Congressional and key

Committee staff

Status UpdatesStatus Updates

GIS-Enabled Scoping ToolGIS-Enabled Scoping Tool

GIS-Enabled Scoping GIS-Enabled Scoping ToolTool

Provides centralized database of initial research data

Provides immediate access to flood map data during community scoping meetings

Enables user to visualize data and recommendations for multiple communities and flooding sources

Assists in scoping out mapping activities on a basin-wide basis (continued)

GIS-Enabled Scoping GIS-Enabled Scoping ToolTool

Data collected from wide range ofsources, including: CIS/Status Library research MNUSS State and Federal GIS data sets Census Bureau Community Input (Meetings and Questionnaires) Q3 FIA (continued)

GIS-Enabled Scoping GIS-Enabled Scoping ToolTool

Data stored on two levels: Community basis

Flooding source basis

GIS display provides link to bothtypes of data

Information Management Information Management SystemSystem

Status of IT SystemStatus of IT System

DO negotiations finalized/notice to proceed

Major tasks: Requirements analysis Preliminary system design Work plan for implementation

ESRI is IT provider (part of WC Team) Work began week of Jan. 8-12, 2001

Schedule for IT Schedule for IT SystemSystem

NCFloodmaps.comNCFloodmaps.com

NCFloodmaps.comNCFloodmaps.com

Public Web site providing: Description of Statewide flood

mapping program News about the program Status and progress reports Public documents, such as project fact

sheets, presentations, etc., for download

Important links to other Web sites

NCFloodmaps.comNCFloodmaps.com

Will go “live” by 1/19/01 Descriptions of Federal Agency partners

included in your notebook Please provide comments about Agency

writeups to Jerry Sparks at jsparks@dewberry.com by 1/23/01

Provide comments on Web site to Bart Alligood at Bart.Alligood@ncmail.net

Demo

Working Group Working Group Reports/Status UpdatesReports/Status Updates

Working Group Working Group Reports/Status Reports/Status

UpdatesUpdates

Future Conditions — Gavin Smith

Coastal — Abdul Rahmani

Post-Flood HazardVerification — Gavin Smith

Discussion ItemsDiscussion Items

Conflicts between Conflicts between State and Local State and Local

PrioritiesPrioritiesIssue: Flood data update needs for basin plans based on

variety of methods: Community surveys and input at initial scoping meetings Historical flood data, such as post-Floyd gage records and

inundation mapping Flood insurance and repetitive loss claims data Engineering assessments of effective FIS and FIRM analyses Mapping deficiencies documented in FEMA’s archives Community response to FEMA’s MNUSS survey

Some communities may not agree with all needs identified by State and FEMA

Conflicts between Conflicts between State and Local State and Local

PrioritiesPrioritiesProposed Policy/Process: All needs ranked/scored using “Selecting

Technical Methods and Assigning Scores” procedures

If ranked high enough, will be included in the Draft Basin Plan

Communities will have opportunity to provide input at Final Scoping Meeting

Technical justification will be required for removing from Basin Plan

““Approximate” Flood Approximate” Flood ElevationsElevations

Issue: Zone A areas on FIRMs do not

show BFEs Typically not based on computations

Zone A areas for NC’s program will be based on H&H analyses/models (albeit less detailed than full detailed study)

Computed 1% annual chance flood elevations useful for floodplain management

Can also be used to rate flood insurance policies

““Approximate” Flood Approximate” Flood ElevationsElevations

Proposed Policy/Process: How to best disseminate this

elevation information? FIRMs? FIS Reports? Online IT System? Other mechanisms?

What do we call them?

Flood Insurance and Flood Insurance and Mortgage Mortgage

DeterminationsDeterminationsIssue: NC flood maps will be official FIRMs Will be used for flood insurance and

mortgage determinationsProposed Policy/Process: Should other interested parties

(i.e., insurance agents, determination companies) be proactively engaged?

Issues for Discussion at Issues for Discussion at CTS CTS

Committee Meeting #5Committee Meeting #5 Scheduled for February 13,

2001

Action Items/Wrap UpAction Items/Wrap Up