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Portal North, the new Gateway Program fixed-span bridge on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) situated between New Jersey and New York that will replace 112-year-old moveable-span Portal Bridge, has been getting the bulk of public and political attention in recent years. But some 35 miles southwest, on the electrified portion of NJ Transit’s North Jersey Coast Line (NJCL), there’s another bridge replacement project of perhaps equal importance. This one is located on the Raritan River, between Pert...

Flooding is the most common natural disaster in the United States, with every state having experienced some aspect of it in recent years1. Storm surge flooding, which occurs...

NORFOLK, Va. — Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Mid-Atlantic (MIDLANT) recently awarded a nearly $300 million, firm-fixed-price contract to California-based RQ-Magann Joint Venture for the replacement of Submarine Pier

Did you know that a residential structure is three times as likely to experience a flood than a fire over the 30-year life of a mortgage? In fact, flooding is the most common type of...

When performing inspections of buildings or structures after a catastrophic event, such as a hurricane, several types of damage conditions may be encountered. The unpredictability of...

Paul Osman, chair of the Floodplain Management Committee at the Illinois Association for Floodplain and Stormwater Management, St. Charles, has issued a public comment on the Federal Emergency Management Agency notice entitled "Request for Information on the National Flood Insurance Program's Floodplain Management Standards for Land Management and Use,...

Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA issued a Request for Information RFI soliciting information and comments from the public on the floodplain management standards enforced by FEMA as part of the National Flood Insurance Program NFIP.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22-- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report on Oct. 15, 2021, entitled "National Flood Insurance Program Risk Rating 2.0: Frequently Asked Questions" by Diane P. Horn, flood insurance and emergency management analyst:. This Insight answers some frequently asked questions about Risk Rating 2.0, which began on October 1, 2021,...

Document Number: "Docket ID: FEMA -2021-0024". First, FEMA seeks the public's input on revising the National Flood Insurance Program's floodplain management standards for land management and use regulations to better align with the current understanding of flood risk and flood risk reduction approaches. Specifically, FEMA is seeking input from the public on...

Is My House in a Flood Zone? FEMA Flood Zone Map Info, and More Margaret Heidenry, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail "Is my property in a flood zone?" Thats a question that concerns both homeowners and home shoppers—and not just those near large bodies of water. In fact, there are a little over a dozen flood zone classifications. Those rankings, determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and represented on special maps, are based on the estimated frequency of storms that will caus...