A tricky topic! FEMA leans into discuss beach nourishment.
The FEMA Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration (FIMA), Risk Analysis Branch is pleased to announce the new Beach Nourishment and Dune Construction Fact Sheet is now available in the FEMA Library.
With coastal communities increasingly opting for beach nourishment as an erosion control alternative, this fact sheet was written to clarify FEMA’s approach to evaluating beach nourishment and dune construction during coastal flood hazard mapping studies. The fact sheet explains how beach nourishment and dune construction projects affect FEMA’s coastal mapping studies and how FEMA evaluates those projects during a mapping study.
The fact sheet also includes side bars featuring relevant clauses of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Code of Federal Regulations and an example of a beach nourishment project in Hilton Head. Intended for both a technical and non-technical audience, the fact sheet can be used to educate a wide variety of stakeholders such as mapping partners, community officials, and the general public.
You can download the PDF from FEMA’s library.
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