United States: floodplain management 2016 - local programs
This document is a summary of responses to the Local Programs Survey undertaken by the Association of State Floodplain Managers in the spring 2016. This survey details what communities are doing in the floodplain management arena nationally. The data collected through this survey act as a baseline that can be used to evaluate the current state of local floodplain management programs and allows for comparison in the future.
The survey was developed to obtain information from municipal or county floodplain managers to better understand the successes, needs and challenges associated with local-level programs. More specifically, the goal of this project was to collect data using a self-administered, web questionnaire from local floodplain managers that had been randomly selected from all 50 states.
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