FLOOD03137

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Guide for Flood and Flash Flood Preparedness Planning
• Date: 5/1/1977
• Prepared For: USDOC
• Prepared By: USDOC
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

Planning Guidance
Rehabilitation and Repair Task

05. Establish procedures for post-flood
clean-up including:

a. clearance, collection and disposal of
debris and discarded goods;
b. street washing;

c. pumping basements; and
d. return of material previously relo-
cated for safekeeping.

06. Establish procedures for management
of damaged structures including:
,
a. procedures for identification and
evaluation of damage; and

b. demolition or temporary repair of
hazardous buildings.

E. Public Information Element

Planning Guidance
Mobilization of Assistance Task

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07. Identify the sources and programs for ei
recovery assistance and the means of
obtaining each including:

a. volunteer organizations;
b. mutual aid agreements;
c. state assistance; and
d. federal assistance.

08. Establish procedures for mobilizing as-
sistance from each available source in-
cluding:

a. conditions under which requests for
assistance will be made;
b. channels to be followed in request-
ing assistance; and
c, preparation of necessary requests,
disaster declarations or other docu-
mentation required as a condition of
assistance.

Planning Objectives

To develop community awareness
and understanding of the flood hazard
and to prepare for the accurate and
timely provision of information during
flood emergencies.

Planning Tasks

Community Education
Emergency Information

Planning Guidance
Community Education Task

E1. Prepare the materials for and carry out
a continuing publiC information pro-
gram, including letters to residents in
evacuation areas, to increase commu-
nity awareness of floods and evacua-
tion area residents' knowledge with re-
spect to:

a. the source, nature, frequency and
potential severity of floods;

b, the community's system for flood
recognition and dissemination of warn-
ings to the public;
c. the meaning of vari.ous types of
warning announcements, siren signals
and/or evacuation notices;
d. the areas likely to be inundated or
evacuated at each level of expected
flooding;
e. procedures for evacuation including
preparations for evacuation, routes,
safe destinations and identification of
reception centers;
f. actions which can be taken by prop-
erty owners to reduce damages includ-
ing movement of furniture and valua-
bles, curtailment of electrical power
and gas service and temporary flood-
proofing;
g. means of requesting identification
as a special warning recipient or re-
ceiving special assistance in evacua-
tion; and
h. safety and remedial actions to be
taken when returning to flood damaged
buildings.

e)

E2.

Prepare and carry out a continuing pro-
gram to provide technical information

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