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Buffalo
United States of America

USA: Flood risk management agency-to-agency mentoring session

Organizer(s) National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies New York State Floodplain and Stormwater Managers Association Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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Format
In person
Venue
Hyatt Regency Downtown Buffalo, 2 Fountain Plaza
Date

Flood risk and stormwater management topics to be covered include:

  • Flood mapping and flood risk management
  • Update on New York works
  • Local political/geographic issues
  • National flood insurance program reform and what it means
  • FEMA Levee analysis mapping – Status and how to keep your maps moving
  • Update on lake Erie and lake Ontario coastal mapping and related issues
  • Multiple benefits of green infrastructure
  • Community emergency management action plans and presidential policy directive 8

Agency-to-agency peer information exchange topics include:

  • Introduction to NAFSMA and NYSFSMA
  • The importance of local flood awareness and water quality
  • Outreach and communications
  • Doing what we teach
  • Taking control of your flood maps – the CTP Option
  • Community rating system program and how it can help your local efforts
  • Sponsor to sponsor assistance to keep your corps of engineers-partnered projects moving
Source
http://www.nafsma.org/meetings-upcoming.php

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Document links last validated on: 18 December 2019

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Hazards Flood
Themes Data and information management Insurance and risk transfer Governance GIS and mapping
Country and region United States of America Americas

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