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To promote the common interest in reducing flood losses and to encourage the protection and enhancement of natural floodplain values... |
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Links
This page provides links to various Internet sites that may be of interest to floodplain management professionals and educators in Nevada, Hawaii, and California. If you know of other sites likely to be of interest or useful to floodplain managers, please email your suggestion to .
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA Home Page
- FEMA Insurance Outreach Toolkit for Flood Map Updates
- FEMA Flood Index Page
- FEMA Map Service Center
- Mitigation and Insurance (NFIP)
- National Mitigation Strategy
- State and Local Guide for All Hazard Emergency Operations
National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
NOAA Home Page
- National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
- Climate Prediction Center
- Climate System
- NOAA, National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
National Weather Service
National Weather Service Home Page
- Interactive Weather Information Network
- National Climate Data Center
- National Severe Storms Laboratory
- National Warning Area
- National Product Area
- River Forecast Centers
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Scientific Organizations
- American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
- American Geophysical Union
- American Meteorological Society
- California Wetlands Information System
- National Science Foundation
- World Health Organization - Flooding and Communicable Diseases Fact Sheet
- World Meteorological Organization
State Agencies And Programs
- California
- Hawaii
- Nevada
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Civil Works Directorate Home Page
- Floodplain Management Services Program
- Hydrologic Engineering Center
- Waterways Experiment Station
- Wetlands Regulations
- Wetlands Delineation Manual
U.S. Department of the Interior
Other Sources for Weather Related Information
Hydrological Reports, Drought and Flood Conditions or Potential
- NWS: National Hydrologic Assessment
- NWS: Current hydrologic conditions (several kinds of reports)
- NWS: Water supply outlooks
- USGS: Real Time Water Data
- NWS: River conditions
- NWS: Snow conditions
Flood Safety and Preparedness
- Floods Are Weather's Biggest Killers
- Slot Canyons: Death Traps In Flash Floods
- NWS: Hurricane Flooding, A Deadly Inland Danger
Flood and Drought History
- NWS: U.S. Flood Damage Since 1903
- NWS: Day-By-Day Flood Summaries Since 1997
- USGS: Significant 20th Century U.S. Floods
International
- NIWA - New Zealand
- World Meteorological Organization
- Asset Management (infrastructure) Manuals and Guidelines
General Interest
- Annotated Bibliography on Floodproofing
- Brown & Caldwell - Pacific Northwest Water News
- California Coastal Coalition
- California Watershed Assessment Manual
- Water Education Foundation
- Water Terminology (Metropolitan Water District)
Disaster Research
Educational
- 42eXplore - Floods and Flooding Topic
- Ecology Protectors Society
- iCivilEngineer.com Famous Dams
- KidsKonnect.com Disaster Preparedness
- The Teacher's Corner - Weather Page
- University of Florida GeoPlan, the Geo-Facilities Planning and Information Research Center
- University of Oregon - Partners for Disaster Resistance and Resilience
- Water Education Foundation