U.S. EPA's Flood Resilience Guide helps utilities understand the flooding threat and identify practical mitigation options to protect their critical assets. The guide includes worksheets and step-by-step instructions to streamline the process.
DHS has prepared an Infrastructure Risk Assessment that evaluates how climate impacts water supplies in the Platte River basin and other critical infrastructure sectors. The Platte is a major river in Nebraska and is fed by tributaries from Wyoming and Colorado; it is a tributary of the Missouri River, which is itself a tributary of the Mississippi River. This Assessment describes the predicted impacts on the area from such phenomena as floods and droughts, and it presents some mitigation options for such events.
The U.S. EPA has developed a guide to help drinking water and wastewater utilities become more resilient to flooding. The guide helps utilities examine the threat of flooding, determine impacts to assets, and identify cost-effective mitigation options. The approach used in the guide was successfully tested during a pilot project at the Berwick Water Department in Maine. The guide includes a user-friendly layout, embedded videos, and flood maps to help guide utilities through the process.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), NOAA, USACE, and FEMA recently released a sea level rise planning tool - which includes interactive sea level rise (SLR) maps and a SLR calculator.
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