Review: Guidance for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping - Base Level Engineering (BLE) Analysis and Mapping

FEMA

Reviewing: Base Level Engineering (BLE) Analysis and Mapping

Goals:

  • Prove I can read.

Outcomes and Takeaways:

  • A shared understanding of the methods and efforts our giants have provided.
  • A better appreciation of how this effort leaned on previous efforts.

FEMA (2021)

Methods

Question:

  • Provides guidance to support the requirements and recommendations for effective and efficient implementation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) Program.

Methods:

  • Review and overview of the state of the domain.
  • Describe the better practices that have evolved since the last guidance update.

Hydraulic Standards

Codified Preconceptions

Extending preconceptions to input data

What have we learned?

  • The creation of Base Level Engineering is not just a mathematical exercise but also a socio-political process of communal risk acceptance.
  • The process is ongoing and collaborative.
  • Better practices are continually evolving, this is just a documented marker of standards on our pathway towards solving hydrology.

Thank you - An August Sunset – Prairie Dell by J. Ottis Adams

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FEMA. 2021. Base Level Engineering (BLE) Analysis and Mapping. FEMA.