Sentences with phrase «of flood protection»

Additionally, where a variance is granted, some level of flood protection and hazard mitigation should always be required.

They would be more in need of flood protection as a part of their Deerfield Beach, FL renters insurance policy.

Zivkovic Samardzic is advising the Austrian Development Agency on the rehabilitation of flood protection infrastructure in Serbia.

The plan will look to increase the level of flood protection across the entire city, while also taking urban planning projects, maintenance activities and resilience strategies into account.

State or local governing boards can increase the stringency of flood protection requirements beyond those informed by retrospective assessments, but few have taken the first step of conducting their own future risk and vulnerability assessments to spur that change.

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.

A comprehensive risk assessment would determine flood hazard for individual structures by modeling watershed and floodplain characteristics at fine spatial scales; it would describe the varying levels of protection offered by all elements of a flood protection system and mitigation measures; and it would account explicitly for uncertainties, including those related to current and future flood hazard, structure value and vulnerability, and the current and future performance of flood protection measures.

The National Flood Forum has also created the «Blue Pages Directory», which is an independent directory of flood protection products and services for anyone at risk of or affected by flooding.

April 4, 2018 — Mayor Sylvester Turner said the City Council's approval of his flood protection reform proposals today was a major step forward for protecting lives and property in any future Houston floods.

Tidal lagoons alone could provide up to 10 % of our future electricity needs, as well as further benefits of flood protection and regeneration of coastal areas.

Measures include the rise of flood protections, reduction of the peak flows through water retention, reduction of vulnerability and relocation to safer areas.

The bottom panel shows the projected temporal evolution of the return period of flood protections

Not exact matches

Now its two - foot thick walls and nearly 45 feet of height can offer occupants of the modern penthouse protection from possible future foes such as ground attackers or looters, not to mention safety from flooding.

While damage caused by some types of natural events — such as lightning or wind — will usually be covered by commercial property insurance, you need a special policy if you want protection from flood damage.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

The close connection between insurability, flood protection and property impacts are important to the real estate industry, says Tim Syrianos, president of the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB).

Israelites went through the plagues of Egypt under Gods protection, the three young Hebrew men went through the fiery furnace under Gods protection, Daniel went through the lions den under Gods protection, Noah went through the flood in the ark under Gods protection and through out the scriptures you can find where Gods people went through this earth age under Gods protection.

Theresa May said the protection scheme will be a quicker, more reliable and cost - effective way of dealing with catastrophes like floods and droughts.

The Flood Free Homes campaign, launched by the Association of British Insurers and supported by Friends of the Earth, National Flood Forum, Know Your Flood Risk, The BRE Centre for Resilience and the Property Care Association's Flood Protection Group, is calling for no home to be at high risk of flooding by 2025.

FSB National Chairman meets businesses in York devastated by the latest flooding and calls for better insurance cover Small firms need insurance protection against flooding as the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) raises concerns that many businesses in high - risk flood areas can not get adequate insurance cover and will have to pay out themselves to repair damage.

Small firms need insurance protection against flooding as the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) raises concerns that many businesses in high - risk flood areas can not get adequate insurance cover and will have to pay out themselves to repair damage.

Committee chair Anne McIntosh added: «At a time of budgetary constraints councils must give flood protection work priority since many of them will need to increase the financial contribution they make to key local flood defence projects whilst also fulfilling their new duties to lead local flood work.»

As part of the New York Crossings Project, the Governor also announced the state will implement new tunnel barriers to control major floods and seismic measures on bridges which will provide long - term protection from earthquakes and other natural forces.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed a checklist to help communities prepare for floods based on the experiences of communities in Vermont's Mad River Valley.

Speaking before a civic group two weeks after superstorm Sandy devastated the region, Ms. Quinn described flood protection as the «single most important infrastructure challenge of our time.»

Projects in Red Hook, Jamaica Bay, and Staten Island will protect from future flooding with both infrastructure upgrades and enhanced natural protections, part of what Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls «living shorelines.»

As the five - year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaches, there are delays at one of the city's biggest flood protection projects.

Industry data shows the difference insurers make With: 9.4 million paid everyday over life, income protection and critical illness insurance in 2014 Over # 1bn in claims paid to households and business affected by the winter 2013/14 floods and storms And tracking of motor and household premiums

Supporting commercial lines businesses Progress on fixed fees for costs of noise - induced hearing loss claims Support for fair compensation for mesothelioma sufferers Expansion of the Insurance Fraud Bureau's scope to commercial liability Campaigning for solutions fit for our future Our Flood Free Homes campaign Forward thinking policy for data and cyber Engaging Government to support the role of income protection Delivery of Flood Re, a world first solution for affordable flood cover Fighting fraud Partnering with Government on the Insurance Fraud Taskforce Renewing the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department Securing new insurer access to the DVLA registered owners database Influencing sensible regulation On Solvency II, we: Secured changes to secondary legislation Clarified treatment of deferred tax Negotiated a favourable calibration of the EIOPA's fundamental spread Supporting insurance businesses Pushing for sensible development of global capital standards Securing better targeted tax legislation Managing the impact of international financial reporting standards.

While local elected officials have fought for years to preserve it, redevelopment of the Red Hook site — potentially as part of a dramatic makeover of the entire neighborhood with new parkland, flood protections and a subway — is now on the table.

The New York City projects are (1) «The Big U», a series of berms and bridges around lower Manhattan, (2) «Living Breakwaters», a series of breakwaters off the south shore of Staten Island, and (3) «Lifelines», to provide flood protection systems for Hunts Point, the site of a major food market that functions as a hub of the region's food supply chain.

Shelley Mayer has been a vigorous advocate for the protection of our environment, cosponsoring a bill that prohibited oil barges from anchoring in the Hudson River and securing $ 3 million for flood mitigation aid after Hurricane Sandy.

To set that figure we need to undertake a sea defence review, similar to the military defence review, which would set out what we actually need to do in terms of reasonable protection against coastal flooding and erosion and how much it will cost.

Among the top contributors in Curran's most recent filing was Haughland Energy Group, a Plainview company that has a contract with the county's Department of Public Works to build a wall and flood protection berm around the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant.

Money for «clean coal», improved flood defences and tougher protection of the Antarctica wilderness are expected to be the key environmental components of the government's legislative agendain tomorrow's Queen's speech.

The governor says residents can't be left to suffer another year of damaging floods with no additional protection.

He also cited worries about flood protection in the low - lying area and noted the city's refusal to consider a large - scale rezoning of the community as proposed by the Chinatown Working Group.

Both developments contribute to climate change and loss of food security, the availability of water and the natural protection against flooding and drought, leading to further societal instability.

This was a chance to assess landscape impact and then back - predict that so before the next flood we have an idea of areas that might need protection.

«We can also examine the effectiveness of deploying flood protection structures for different flooding scenarios.»

The top priorities for urban water sustainability include the provision of safe drinking water, wastewater handling for public health, and protection against flooding.

«Private mitigation tends to be effective and efficient wherever there is no, or inadequate, protection in the form of technical flood protection,» explains UFZ economic geographer Dr. Volker Meyer.

The conception of 100 % flood protection is just as fallacious as the idea that future damage can be prevented as long as plan approval procedures are expedited and public participation curtailed.

«How many of them invest in flood protection as a result is not dependent merely on how high they perceive the risk to be, but also on the resources they have at their disposal.

As the world warms, we will have to review all manner of basic assumptions to keep flood protection measures robust, says Jim Hall

Throughout Germany, two thirds of the former floodplains have been lost to dikes and other flood protection measures.

In Saxony alone, over half a billion euro has been invested in technical flood protection since the catastrophic flooding of 2002.

In future, flood mitigation in Germany should be based on four key pillars: Technical flood protection for larger built - up areas will be required just as much as greater space for rivers by means of dike relocation and integration of the agricultural sector.

To produce the supply, tropical countries have been converting their forests for crop and livestock production, leading to a loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration, flood protection or pollination, while increasing carbon dioxide emissions.

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.