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Floodplain Management

ASFPM - WV

Blackwater Falls State Park

Davis, WV

May 14, 2002

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Federal Declared Disasters

§Total since 1953= 2061 Nationally

§Average per year = 34

§Total in WV = 48

§2 were winter storms/blizzards

§46 were floods

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Fed. Declared Disasters– cont’d

§Total in WV since 1969 = 41

§Approx. 1 per year

§Total in WV since 1995 = 28

§1.65 per year

§5 in WV in 1996 alone

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Fed. Declared Disasters- cont’d

§2011 was a record year for FEMA

§Total Major Disaster Declarations across the USA = 99

§Total Major Disaster Declarations in WV = ?

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The NFIP

§Started in 1968 - Voluntary

§Updated in 1973 – Mandatory

§275 WV Communities Participate

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The NFIP Three Legged Stool

§Flood Maps

§Flood Plain Ordinances

§Flood Insurance

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The HM* Three Legged Stool

§Know your Risk

§Reduce your Risk

§Insure for the remaining Risk

* HM = Hazard Mitigation

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Know Your Risk

§Map Modernization§Digital County-Wide FIRM (DFIRMs)§Started in 2003, Approx. $9 million for 55

counties in WV§Eliminated the need to create, store and

distribute paper maps§Datum converted from NGVD to NAVD§Used in GIS w/ other map overlays

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Know Your Risk - cont’d

§Risk MAP - Started in 2009

§Map the Risk

§Assess the Risk

§Plan for the Risk

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Know Your Risk - cont’d

§Risk MAP

§Map the Risk – $ 2.4 million

§Risk Map Projects§Disaster Recovery Mapping §Elevation Data Collection§CTP-Project Management § (see handout for more detail)

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Know Your Risk - cont’d

§Risk MAP

§Assess the Risk§ HAZUS§ Depth Grids§ These and other tools see:

§http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/fhm/rm_main.shtm

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Know Your Risk - cont’d

§Risk MAP

§Plan for the Risk = HM Planning§Sec. 322 of the Stafford Act (2000)§Communities put down in writing

where their risks are located and how they plan to mitigate them.

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Reduce Your Risk

§Develop a Community HM Plan

§Adopt a Community FPM Ordinance with Higher Standards

§Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC)-up to $30,000 for F.R.E.D.

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Reduce Your Risk – cont’d

§SBA – Mitigation Loan

§WV HMA Grants Since 1997

§ Properties Acquired – 948 at $45,069,818

§ Properties Elevated – 51 at $3,597,059

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Insure for the Remaining Risk

§FI Polices in force = 21,481

§Written Premium = $17 million

§Coverage = $2.6 billion

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Insure for the Remaining Risk

§Loss Payments since 1978 = $284,610,411

§Earned Premium since 1978 = $212,978,819

§ICC Claims = 98 at $1,887,575§DE = 102 at $1,744,792

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What is Success?

§ Success is no longer the simple delivery of a new map, a FPM ordinance, a FI policy, or the buyout of one home or business in the flood plain

§ Risk MAP is a comprehensive program of mitigation targeted at local government OUTCOMES.

§We succeed when the entire community, the Whole Community, is engaged to lower both their individual and community-wide flood risk

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What is Whole Community?

§ How do you engage the movers and shakers in your community?

§Who are the movers and shakers in your community?

§What are the roadblocks in your community keeping you from moving forward and reducing the flood risks in your community?

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What is Whole Community?

§ FEMA employees do not have these answers, but we can try and help if we can.

§ Do the State employees here in the room have the answers?

§ Do you all out in the audience have the answers to “whole community” in your community?

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Questions?

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