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The mission of Total Flood Risk Management

This is an initiative that began in the USACE 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 natural 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 by

…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.