Featured Project: Floodplain Management

Flooding in Phoenicia

Flood­ing in Phoeni­cia, NY dur­ing Hur­ri­cane Irene, August, 2011

 

In 2010, fol­low­ing sev­eral major flood events, the Town of Shan­daken devel­oped the Shan­daken Area Flood Assess­ment and Reme­di­a­tion Ini­tia­tive (SAFARI) to help plan for ways to mit­i­gate future flood events in the Town. To assist with this goal, the Ashokan Water­shed Stream Man­age­ment Pro­gram granted the Town of Shan­daken $102,500 to hire con­sul­tants to develop a long-term mit­i­ga­tion strat­egy for the town with an empha­sis on Phoeni­cia. The con­sul­tants are assist­ing the town with apply­ing to the FEMA Com­mu­nity Rat­ing Sys­tem (CRS) pro­gram. The CRS is a pro­gram that allows munic­i­pal­i­ties to per­form ser­vices and tasks that can lower the rate their res­i­dents pay on flood insur­ance premiums.

In July of 2013, the final Town of Shan­daken Flood Mit­i­ga­tion Plan was com­pleted. Shortly after­ward, New York State launched its New York Ris­ing Com­mu­nity Recon­struc­tion Pro­gram. This opened up a new fund­ing stream for flood haz­ard mit­i­ga­tion projects in the Ashokan water­shed. In addi­tion, NYC DEP’s Local Flood Analy­sis (LFA) Pro­gram is gear­ing up to launch. This pro­gram will pro­vide fund­ing for water­shed towns to per­form flood mit­i­ga­tion projects in ham­let pop­u­la­tion cen­ters. The projects must first undergo an engi­neer­ing and benefit-cost analy­sis. The results will help com­mu­ni­ties to deter­mine fea­si­bil­ity and poten­tial effec­tive­ness of the projects. AWSMP will con­tinue to work with water­shed towns and other part­ner agen­cies to plan and imple­ment flood haz­ard mit­i­ga­tion measures.

Town of Shan­daken Flood Mit­i­ga­tion Plan:

Cover and Con­tents
Sec­tion 1 and 2
Sec­tion 3
Sec­tion 4
Sec­tion 5
Sec­tion 6
Sec­tion 7
Glos­sary
Ref­er­ences
Appen­dix A - Acronyms and Def­i­n­i­tions
Appen­dix B - CRS Plan­ning Require­ments
Appen­dix C Part I - Pub­lic Sur­vey
Appen­dix C Part IIa - Pub­lic Pre­sen­ta­tion
Appen­dix C Part IIb - Pub­lic Pre­sen­ta­tions
Appen­dix C Part IIc  - Pub­lic Pre­sen­ta­tions
Appen­dix C Part IId - Pub­lic Pre­sen­ta­tions
Appen­dix C Part IIe - Pub­lic Pre­sen­ta­tions
Appen­dix C Part III - Meet­ing Records
Appen­dix D - Exam­ple Progress Report

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