FEMA Flood Maps to Indicate How High to Rebuild Damaged New Jersey Coastal HomesWatson, Sarah
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) —Property owners and builders in 10 New Jersey counties will learn more about flood hazards in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will release advisory base flood elevation maps on Saturday. The maps provide depictions of flood hazards in...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Region II office has prepared a coastal flood study to update Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for communities in coastal New Jersey and New York. The flood hazards shown on the FIRM are used to determine flood insurance rates and requireme...
FEMA created Advisory Base Flood Elevation (ABFE) maps to show a more current picture of flood risk for coastal New Jersey and New York communities after Hurricane Sandy. For most communities, ABFE information has now been replaced by preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps as the most recent flood...
Producing and Communicating Flood Risk: A Knowledge System Analysis of FEMA Flood Maps in New York City The burgeoning development of coastal cities coupled with increasing exposure to sea level rise and extreme weather events has exacerbated the vulnerability of coastal communities and infrastructure to...
This study demonstrates a method of quantitatively assessing and documenting storm surge damage and applying the damage information to evaluate flood risk maps. 展开 关键词: Storm surge damage Structural vulnerability Hurricane Sandy FEMA flood map ...
VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- The Federal Emergency Management Agency has unveiled its new flood zone map forNassau County's South Shore. The federal government added 90,000 properties to the flood hazard zone when it issued new maps in 2009. But now, FEMA has pledged to revise ...
The First Street Foundation, a non-profit that assesses climate change risks, says some 6 million homes nationwide are at risk of flooding but don’t come up on FEMA’s maps. It says there are 445,251 properties in New Jersey — or 13% of properties in the state — that have greater...
updating of the seismic design maps and how they are presented; a modification in the redundancy factor; the addition of ultimate strength design provisions for foundations; the addition of several new structural systems, including buckling restrained braced frames and steel plate shear walls; structur...
New FEMA maps that designate existing homes in flood zones are likely to spark legal action by property owners, says a New Jersey contractor. The designations could force homeowners victimized by flooding during Hurricane Sandy to rebuild according to costly flood-resistant building standards. "My ...