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<br />ASFPM Austin 2000 Conference <br />Abstracts & Biographies <br /> <br />Jay has been the city project engineer for numerous projects within the city the most recent being <br />the East Riverside Drive project that connects Foremaster Drive, Mall Drive, and the Millcreek <br />Industrial Park. <br /> <br />Jay is also is responsible for coordinating the review of all development related projects within <br />the city. <br /> <br />Jay was the project engineer for the recently completed "master drainage study." Which <br />identifies needed drainage improvements within the city and makes recommendations for <br />funding these improvements, <br /> <br />Accelerated Rural Flood-prone Area Mapping using OEMs <br /> <br />By: Josh Lear & Shuhai Zheng <br /> <br />Flooding continues to be Nebraska's most costly natural hazard, Since 1990, Nebraska has had 7 <br />flood-related federal disaster declarations affecting 58 counties and resulting in damages in <br />excess of $160 million. <br /> <br />The single-most important element of any comprehensive hazard mitigation program is hazard <br />identification, for flooding, the delineation of the 1 % frequency floodplain (lOO-year floodplain) <br />provides this identification. <br /> <br />As the state agency responsible for all matters pertaining to floodplain management, the <br />Nebraska Natural Resources Commission (NNRC) has been tasked by the legislature with <br />. accelerating-its programoHltlod~azard identification~ - - - ---- .--. - - - - - - - -. - , - -- -- - - - - <br /> <br />The NNRC has had a state-funded program to provide floodplain mapping to local governments <br />since 1967. Traditionally, detailed floodplain studies were developed by collecting ground <br />survey information, computing hydrology and hydraulics, and delineating the 100-year <br />floodplain using photogrammetric methods, This approach has proven to be very costly and time <br />consummg, <br /> <br />Faced with shrinking state and federal budgets, limited amounts of funding available for <br />mapping through the national flood insurance program, and over half the counties in the state <br />remaining unmapped, the NNRC reevaluated its mapping program 3 years ago, It was decided <br />that alternative approaches utilizing state-of-the-art technologies and innovative methods to <br />rapidly map flood hazards would be pursued, <br /> <br />Page 3 <br />