NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM TRANSITION TO NAVD 88 Elmer C Knoderer, P. E. Dewberry & Davis 8401 Arlington Boulevard Fairfax, VA 22031-4666 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Elmer C Knoderer received his B. S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic ...
FEMA is currently in the middle of a five-year, billion dollar effort to modernize the Nation's Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs). FIRMs are an integral part of the NFIP as they provide information used for setting insurance rates and for land use management purposes. As part of the "...
A national flood-risk map to be managed by the federal government will be used by insurers as a cover to raise premiums unnecessarily and put insurance beyond the reach of people, according to consumer advocates. Archived articles are available to Magazine subscribers only. For Full Access to th...
occupant, or neighbor; and basic flood risk data from the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) or Flood Insurance Study (FIS). Detailed Data View (“Detailed Data”). This view is suitable when a more thorough inspection of the property and its surroundings is conducted as well as when lo...
A comprehensive hazard map and a natural disaster prevention and control zonation map have been compiled, together with the hazard zonation mapping of seismic intensity, geological disaster prevention and flood control in major rivers, among others, Zheng told a press conference held by the State Cou...
flood event and loss data are compiled by three different federal agencies (USGS, National Weather Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) for very different purposes, yet are rarely shared or reconciled. Natural hazards are cataloged differently thantechnological hazards. Private insurance ...
Hands down, it has to be March 22nd, 2018, which was a significant flash flood event across Mariposa County. Our office earned the confidence of the entire emergency management community across the Central Valley that day. What advice do you have for someone interested in a career with the ...
The resulting maps are instrumental for understanding the impact of floods on transportation infrastructures and aiding informed decision-making for policymakers, the insurance industry, and road infrastructure asset managers. Keywords: urban resilience; flood hazard mapping; road network; geospatial data ...
a fluidized mixture of hot gas and incandescent particles that sweeps down a volcano’s flanks, incinerating everything in its path. Great destruction also can result when ash collects on a high snowfield orglacier, melting large quantities of ice into afloodthat can rush down a volcano’s sl...
Some good examples for normative EC indicators—i.e., indicators with a clear directionality (the higher the better) that depict specific features of ecosystem integrity were ‘soil hydrologic capacity’, which could be linked to two water flow-related ES (flood regulation and filtration of water...