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What are all the measures?
We use these icons below to help the public better understand the possible solutions for flooding. These measures can be features or management activities. Many of the well-known features are at the bottom right. Many the management activities are at the top. These can be combined in many different ways. Alternatives are formulated with various combinations of both types of the measures, and those alternatives are used in capital budgeting processes, whether a community’s CIP or a federal planning study.
Legislation by Congress has brought about defining measures in another way, as structural and nonstructural. Most of those at the top and left are nonstructural. The structural ones are synonymous with features, although some confusion happens with buildings and floodproofing. Those are nonstructural. Some coastal ones, along the bottom, may be either.
An activity is an effort done by the City, Counties or partnering State and Federal agencies to know the flood risks better, to reduce the risk, and to manage risk in the long-term. Examples of an activity could be administering zoning and building codes, doing an informational outreach program, updating a study of a flood-prone area, or completing an emergency action plan.
Features are actual construction projects to a property or properties that an individual can undertake, or the City, Counties or partnering agencies can perform. Features can include major civil works projects such as levees, dams, channels, or smaller, minor features such as elevating an existing home or business.
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