As a member of the Department of Public Works, you are charged with maintaining your community’s water, sewer, and street and traffic systems, and with protecting the public’s safety.
Following are some ways that you can help to make your community safer and save municipal funds.
Hazard Identification and Mapping
- Interpreting Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and Flood Insurance Studies
- Understanding the limitations of Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and Flood Insurance Studies
- Finding and using additional hazard information
- Sharing emergency information
Planning
Regulation and Development Standards
Mitigation and Shore Protection
- Using non-structural shore protection
- Using flood and erosion control structures
- Retrofitting existing structures
- Relocating existing structures
Infrastructure
- Protecting critical access routes
- Keeping roads and utilities out of damage-prone areas
- Regularly inventorying hazard risk to all public property
- Improving construction and design of critical facilities
- Siting critical facilities out of harm’s way
Emergency Services
- Creating a emergency response plan
- Improving disaster response coordination
- Creating a post-disaster recovery plan
- Assessing damage to buildings
Education and Outreach