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City Council |
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Agenda Request |
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Agenda Of: |
11-17-09 |
Agenda Request
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viii-a |
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Initiated By: |
Shashi Kumar,
P.E. Drainage Engineer |
Responsible
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Engineering |
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Presented By: |
Shashi Kumar,
P.E. Drainage Engineer |
Department
Head: |
Christopher
Steubing, P.E., City Engineer |
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Additional
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Subject /
Proceeding: |
Release of Preliminary Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRM)
by FEMA Workshop |
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Exhibits: |
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Clearances |
Approval |
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Legal: |
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Executive
Director: |
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Purchasing: |
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Asst. City
Manager: |
Karen Daly |
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Budget: |
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City Manager: |
Allen Bogard |
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Budget |
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Expenditure
Required: $ |
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Amount
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Additional
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Recommended
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Receive and discuss the release of the Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps. |
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Executive
Summary |
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The Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) started a nationwide Flood Map Modernization Program
in 2004. The main objective of this
program was to provide better quality and updated flood maps that would
identify the flooding risks within a community. Also, these maps would be produced in
digital (GIS) format that would facilitate ease of distribution and overlay
on other layers of data. The current
(effective) FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps in Fort Bend County were last updated
in 1997 and the data used in making these maps was approximately 30 years
old. The Fort Bend
County map update initiative began in 2005.
The City of Sugar Land, under a Cooperative Technical Partnership
(CTP) agreement with FEMA, contributed the local government share of the
funding to perform a detailed study of Oyster Creek, one of the main flooding
sources within the City. Also, Fort
Bend County, under a CTP agreement with FEMA, contributed funds to primarily
obtain the LIDAR (topographic) data to facilitate a detailed study of the
Brazos River. The release of the
Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRM) was delayed by over two years due
to various factors. However, FEMA has
finally released these maps to various communities (including City of Sugar
Land) within Fort Bend County in preliminary format on October 30, 2009. This workshop on the DFIRM release will
focus on the following issues:
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Exhibits |
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