Identify appropriate flood risk acceptance and develop supporting standards and guidelines. Three options include: Informed Science Approach: Use the best available climate science data to determine future flood conditions, and elevate structures above that future flood level. Freeboard Value Approach: Elevate structures and facilities two feet for standard projects and three feet for critical projects above the 100-year flood level. 500-Year Elevation Approach: Elevate structures to the 500-year flood level (a flood with a 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any given year).
Tribe: North Olympic Peninsula Resource Conservation and Development Council
View Source Document: Climate Change Preparedness Plan for the North Olympic Peninsula
Year: 2015
Topic:
Adopt new flood risk management standards and guidelines
(view all topics in the plan)
Region: Northwest
Timeframe: Medium term (3-10 years)
