Sentences with phrase «flood damage mitigation»

Many questions demand answering but one thing is clear: the provincial government, together with the municipalities, needs to take much more serious steps than it has in the past to implement both flood minimization and flood damage mitigation strategies.

Indeed the 2006 report itself acknowledges that the committee led by Groeneveld left significant matters unexamined even taking only flood damage mitigation into account.

As many people now know from recent media reports, flood damage mitigation was addressed by a provincial government committee set up after the 2005 floods.

Not exact matches

Many people are writing about the need to limit new development in flood plains after the 2013 flood but that speaks only to the damage mitigation side.

So right away we can see that the committee's work could never have been sufficient to the task at hand, for the challenge is not just mitigation of damage but minimization of the likelihood and scale of the flooding itself.

Counties, cities, towns, villages and special districts that sustained direct physical flood - related damage are eligible to receive up to $ 1,000,000 for repairs to and restoration of municipal infrastructure and systems and up to $ 500,000 for flood mitigation, construction of resiliency measures, or flood control projects.

The bill also establishes a fund for local governments to invest in future flood control and mitigation projects, and it allows some damaged properties to get tax assessment reductions.

The program consists of two components: $ 21 million through the Business Flood Recovery Grant Program to be directed to eligible entities that sustained direct, physical flood - related damage and $ 9 million through the Flood Mitigation Grant Program to be used to support flood mitigation or flood control projects in waterways impacted by the record - breakiMitigation Grant Program to be used to support flood mitigation or flood control projects in waterways impacted by the record - breakimitigation or flood control projects in waterways impacted by the record - breaking storms.

We do not need less dialogue, we need more, centring on the question of how we should best prepare for extreme flooding in the future»; they propose that, in future, flood mitigation measures should be based on four pillars to keep damage levels as low as possible and to distribute the burden fairly:

«Mandatory insurance for all home - owners would reassign the costs for damage within a framework of solidarity, while the premium rebates would create economic incentive for private mitigation measures to tackle elementary damage such as flooding, severe rainfall and snow pressure,» prompts Prof. Reimund Schwarze from UFZ as food for thought.

In this, a carefully structured, mandatory insurance can assign the costs of actual damage in such a way that the economic incentives for mitigation measures against flooding and heavy rainfall are not lost.

Nevertheless, even a combination of technical, natural and private mitigation to protect against flooding will not succeed in preventing all damage — «residual risks» remain.

Furthermore, private mitigation should be supported wherever technical flood protection has so far been unable to provide sufficient protection against damage.

NFIP currently assesses flood risk in terms of the probability and depth of flooding, the economic value of the assets subject to damage, the vulnerability of the structure, and the performance of flood protection and mitigation measures.

Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) FMA provides funds on an annual basis so that measures can be taken to reduce or eliminate risk of flood damage to buildings insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

If you are already living in a designated flood zone, look at mitigation efforts that can reduce your risk of flood damage and consider purchasing flood insurance.

In exchange, communities gain access to flood maps, mitigation assistance and subsidized insurance to prepay for future damage and recover more quickly from flooding.