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It Doesn’t Take a Hurricane to Cause a Flood Flooding is the costliest — and the most common — natural disaster to significantly impact communities across the United States, The PEW Charitable Trust notes in its reporting on flood-prepared communities. Flood events have accounted for more than $850 billion in damage and losses in the U.S. since 2000, the global nonprofit, nongovernmental organization points out. It doesn’t take a hurricane to create a flood event. After all, just one in...

NGS revises NOAA report on working in the modernized NSRS The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has revised an important technical document on the modernized National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). Zilkoski explores a use case on flood mapping, discussing an Elevation Certificate example, Flood Insurance Rate Map and Flood Insurance Study. NGS has scheduled a webinar for April 8 to discuss the four use case examples.  In February 2021, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) revised NOAA Technical R...

“Sometimes I wish I could move to another state where there’s no water around,” she said. The water is a constant, creeping threat in Atlantic City, where the sea level rise has caused an increase in sunny day flooding. These days, it only takes a particularly high tide, which reaches more than a foot higher than it did a century ago, for water to spill onto the city’s streets. As many as 1,640 affordable housing units in New Jersey are vulnerable to coastal flooding at least once per...