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“The Juneau Flood Dashboard provides a new way to visualize flood inundation maps,” said Eran Hood, a hydrologist and UAS ...
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With flash flood warnings spiking and concerns over severe weather increasing across Central Virginia, the City of Richmond is taking action to finalize updated FEMA flood maps that will go into ...
The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated data and obsolete models. As a result, the U.S. government downplays flood risks for homeowners across the country—but ...
It’s well worth a read. Plus, she dug up some great archival imagery, like this map of the 1927 flood: Some additional details on the map are in this article from the National Archives: The 200th ...
What he doesn’t see is a eucalyptus grove — as indicated by an outdated map Cal Fire recently used to determine that his property was in a “very high” fire hazard severity zone.
which lies outside of the Yakima River flood plain. Both of the former treatment plant spray fields lie within the Greenway Overlay Zone, an area surrounding but not part of the Yakima Greenway ...
Riverland residents have welcomed the findings handed down by the Select Committee on the 2022-23 River Murray Flood Event. A recommendation highlighting the need for improved communication and ...
The newly completed plan, available on the Amite River Basin Commission's website, identifies how we can revise FEMA’s flood maps to remove thousands of homes from designated flood zones ...
Catchments in the Flood Watch area are relatively wet. There is some degree of uncertainty over the exact location and timing of the heaviest falls. Localised river level rises, and flash flooding ...