Floods

Citation

(1999), "Floods", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 8 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.1999.07308eag.004

Floods

FLOODS

Federal Emergency Management Agency

http://www.fema.gov/mit/tsd

FEMA has initiated a major effort to modernize its Flood Hazard Mapping Program. This site, devoted to that endeavour, offers separate sections with extensive information for homeowners, engineers and surveyors, insurers and lenders, and flood-plain managers. In addition, it provides an on-line version of the modernization program's newsletter, Work in Progress, which covers the latest mapping program changes and improvements, as well as the new technologies used to achieve these advancements.

Flash Flood Laboratory

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/fflab/index.htm

The Web page of Colorado State University's Flash Flood Laboratory provides information about the lab as well as an extensive analysis of the Ft Collins, Colorado, flash flood of 28 July 28 1997.

Red River Basin Disaster Information Network

http://www.emforum.org/redriver/

A group of concerned government agencies, private organizations, and individuals recently established the Red River Basin Disaster Information Network "to enhance coordination of information sharing, before, during and after disaster". The network is a direct response to the massive Red River floods of April 1997 that inundated North Dakota and Minnesota in the USA and the Canadian province of Manitoba. Although the network's initial focus is flood hazards, its founders intend it to be used in conjunction with all hazards and for all phases of disasters and emergencies. Ultimately, the members of this network plan to use this Web site to develop, maintain, and promote a virtual database, a decision support system, other information resources, and communications media to improve watershed, flood-plain, and disaster management in the basin. The site currently offers detailed background information about this project, a directory of participants, a mailing list, a bulletin board and forum for on-line discussion, a "file bank" indexed by author and title, a list of information sources, a calendar of relevant events, a regional map, and other information useful to anyone dealing with watershed or hazard management in the region.