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

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G. Plan Maintenance Element

Planning Objectives

To update, extend and improve the
flood preparedness plan and to insure
readiness for executing the plan.

Planning Tasks

Plan Updating
Plan Improvement
Plan Practice

Planning Guidance
Plan Updating Task

G1. Establish procedures and schedules for
plan contents subject to rapid obsoles-
cence including:

a. addresses, teiephone numbers, and
names of key participants;
b. assignments of responsibility;

c. changes in flood potential;

d. areas requiring evacuation;
e. availability of facilities for reception
centers;
f. evacuation routes and priorities;

g. flood fighting requirements;
h. utility extensions or system modifi-
cations; and
i. traffic control requirements.

G2. Establish procedures for updating of
plan contents based on specific events
such as:

a. construction of or modification in
the operation of upstream water control
structures which affect the height, se-
verity, or time of flooding;
b. natural or unplanned events which
modify the flood potential; and
c. construction or modification in the
operation of facilities in or downstream
of the community which increases the
height, severity, or duration of floods.

Planning Guidance
Plan Improvement Task

G3. Describe needed and planned exten-
sions of the warning system and pre-
paredness plan including:

a. coverage of additional area; and
b. incorporation of elements, tasks and
subtasks omitted from the initial plan.

G4. Describe needed and planned refine-
ments to the warning system and pre-
paredness plan including:

a. provision of additional observers,
gages and flash flood alarms to im-
prove the flood recognition system; .
b. more detailed identification of areas
to be evacuated;

c. strengthening of communications in-
volved in all aspects of the plan; and
d. development of additional subplans
for various affected organizations and
locations.

G5. Establish procedures for the critical
evaluation of performance in real and
simulated implementation of the plan
including:

a. process for initiation, organization
and conduct of the evaluation; and
b. process for modification of the plan
based on findings of the evaluation.

Planning Guidance
Plan Practice Task

G6. Establish procedures and schedules
for testi ng those aspects of the flood
warning system and preparedness plan
which are susceptibie to periodic use
such as:

a. procedures for communication with
observe.r networks, NWS and other
federal offices, special warning recipi-
ents, organizations and officials re-
sponsible for warning dissemination
and plan execution, and others as may
be appropriate;
b. communications equipment includ-.

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