Totalfloodriskmanagement.org

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The mission of Total Flood Risk Management

Total Flood Risk Management is a nonprofit advocacy that is focused on raising both flood awareness and understanding solutions for flood hazards. This is an initiative that began in the USACE National Flood Risk Management Program and implemented in the Silver Jackets Program. Silver Jackets is about USACE helping state led teams focused on hazard mitigation. Another point of origin is the USACE National Nonstructural Committee, focused on floodproofing and other measures that should be considered along with structural measures. The webpage is committed to understanding the full menu of flood risk management measures and moving them forward with the work of those continuing state teams and supporting partners.

A major concern for fields focused on hazard mitigation is that professionals serve in a field and then leave or retire without a continuity plan. Without passing on their knowledge. We already have an amnesia problem between flooding disasters. We don’t have to have this knowledge lapse. Therefore, the mission of this page is to help share the body of knowledge that goes with flood risk management.

Total Flood Risk Management – is a comprehensive philosophy.

Total Flood Risk Management – is a knowledge initiative advancing the full menu of flood risk management measures

The site logo is a coat of arms for Total Flood Risk Management. The design is a shield with quarterly elements. The upper left quadrant is a field azure guttée d’eau, or silver rain drops. This represents past rainfall, while the right shows more intense rainfall coming, blue droplets, argent guttée de larmes. This is intended to invoke planning. The bottom quadrants show coastal and inland flood sources, indicated using azure ondé, waves. At the center is an icon of two hands clasped over a golden disk with a lightning charge, symbolizing friendship, alliance, and concord for the strength partnerships provide. The lightning suggests sudden illumination and immediate action. Together, these convey the magnitude of their synergy brought about through the combined individual strengths.

The colors are also important in heraldry. The azure represents rain but also truth, vigilance, and fidelity, which leaders must show to protect the public. The argent background is for honesty, trustworthiness, and integrity. The orange represents courage and unity, and the gold, highlighting community focus and leadership and a strong sense of public duty.

The initiative is advancing the full menu of flood risk management measures by

…raising both flood awareness and understanding solutions for flood hazards

…providing tools to get to flood resilience faster,

…empathizing with those impacted by flooding,

…uniting in partnerships with all that have agency in this practice,

…and advocating for practitioners in flood mitigation.

This is flood risk management leadership.

This is Total Flood Risk Management.

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