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Water Management District Employs Floodplain Information Portal System to Improve Outreach and Permitting Services The Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) recently launched a new floodplain information portal to help with public outreach and improve an outdated permitting system. The portal, found at www. srwmdfloodreport.com, and which has been in use internally at SRWMD since early 2008, went live to the public on January 1, 2009. Streamlined Access Flood information is now available over the Web, eliminating much of the administrative process previously required to deliver flood information to residents, businesses, surveyors, and other users. The tool provides information concerning flood zone location and type along with descriptions of how to interpret the specific Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood zones. The portal educates users regarding the FEMA flood zones that affect them. On-Demand BFE Tools In addition to traditional floodplain information, such as zone designations, the portal also provides base flood elevation (BFE) information, allowing for site-specific BFEs on-demand. This unique BFE feature has allowed permitting officials at the SRWMD to abandon previous permitting workflows that involved spreadsheets and manual scaling on hardcopy maps. The key to the automated BFE determination is the three-dimensional water surface terrains developed using the latest geographic information system (GIS) technologies, as developed by the Dewberry team working with SRWMD on the portal. “The flood report tool has been extremely useful when communicating to property owners about their flooding risk. The system, developed by Dewberry, allows for accuracy beyond what is commonly possible by interpreting BFEs from flood profiles from a Flood Insurance Study,” says Kevin Wright, SRWMD project manager. This article was originally contributed by Kevin Wright to the Florida Floodplain Managers Association’s Fall/Winter 20082009 issue of Plain Talk. By accessing the web-based portal, the user may view maps that illustrate parcels, floodplain boundaries, and BFEs for an area. The portal is found at www.srwmdfloodreport.com. 6
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Contents
Engaging the Public
Checking in at Fort Belvoir
Recycling Municipal Facilities
Improving Outreach and Permitting
Topping Off Virtua Voorhees Hospital
Dimensions - March/April 2009 - Contents
Dimensions - March/April 2009 - Engaging the Public
Dimensions - March/April 2009 - 3
Dimensions - March/April 2009 - Checking in at Fort Belvoir
Dimensions - March/April 2009 - Recycling Municipal Facilities
Dimensions - March/April 2009 - Improving Outreach and Permitting
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Dimensions - March/April 2009 - Topping Off Virtua Voorhees Hospital
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