FLOOD05140

• County: Statewide
• Community: Nationwide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Bibliography on Flood Proofing
• Date: 3/1/1977
• Prepared By: National Hasards Research and Applications Information Center
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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u.s. Dept. of
Federal
20410.
Elevated residential
design: A guide manual.
ll3p.

Housing and Urban Development, National Flood Insurance Program,
Insurance Administration. 451 7th St., S.W., Washington, D. C.

structures.
Sept. 1976.

Reducing flood damage through building

Provides background information on the National Flood Insurance Program
and discusses techniques and considerations for elevating residences, typical
elevated structures, a review of alternative approaches, recommended performance
criteria, and a cost analysis of elevated foundations.

U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Administration.
Unpublished. the NHRAIC Library has a copy.
Site preparation and floodproofing of buildings, Appendix F. In Insurance
and otherprograms for financial assistance to flood victims, A report from the
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Washington, D.C.
1966.
16p.

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After a discussion of public interests in flood proofing, situations in whicl
flood proofing is inappropriate are discussed. Twelve specific limitations and
guides are listed. The report concludes that the applicabllity of flood proofi~
to new single family and light commercial construction. will prove impractical in
most situations. In other instances, the. public interest in maintaining un-
diminished natural flood storage would preclude flood proofing. Flood proofin~
is most applicable to existing properties exposed to flood damage. The report
includes a review of flood proofing techniques.

U.S. Dept. of the Navy. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, D. C.
20390.
Design manual--Soil mechanics, foundations and earth structures. March,
1971.
(NA VFAC DM- 7)

Willis, Cleve E. and Petros Alkiku
"Flood proofing decisions with uncertain events." Water Resources Bulletin
10, (April 1974), PP. 295-303.

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The addition of flood proofing to other (structural and non-structural)
flood damage reduction measures broadens the choice among existing alternatives
for decision makers and consequently enables the possibility of improved expec-
ted net benefits from an overall flood damage reduction scheme. Planners are
interested in more than just expected values of net benefits, however. The in-
herent riskiness of various alternative plans must be considered as well.
Therefor, a partial equilibrium framework is specified for purposes of estimatin
means and variances of a measure of net benefits from flood proofing. The model
is applied to selected communities in the Connecticut Rivet Basin and sampl€
computer results are provided.

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