Navigated to Failing FEMA Flood Maps and New Resilience Planning

Failing FEMA Flood Maps and New Resilience Planning

August 15
26 mins

Episode Description

With increasing inland flash flooding in the region, a new study from Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Transportation Planning Board finds FEMA flood maps cover only 15 percent of flooding-related road closures in the Washington DC region. Sunil Dasgupta talks with Katherine Rainone, a transportation resilience planner at MWCOG, about the regional vulnerability study and projects to come out it. Flood analysis interactive tool: https://t.ly/kkchF Full flood analysis report: https://t.ly/f-DRF Music by A Shrewdness of Apes.

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