{"id":40821,"date":"2017-06-20T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoplastglobal.com\/?p=40821"},"modified":"2022-11-24T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T15:29:45","slug":"water-management-solutions-minimize-flood-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplastglobal.com\/en\/blog\/water-management-solutions-minimize-flood-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Water management solutions minimize flood damage"},"content":{"rendered":"Climate change linked to urbanization is altering the natural water cycle and nowadays water management<\/strong> became an issue of significant relevance.\r\n\r\nCatastrophic events due to a wrong management of water are more and more common. Among these floods<\/strong>, which are Earth’s most common\u2013and most destructive\u2013natural hazards. A flood occurs when water overflows or inundates land that’s normally dry. \r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn the United States, where flood mitigation and prediction is advanced, floods do about $6 billion <\/strong>worth of damage and kill about 140 people <\/strong>every year.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nHere, there are multiple laws known as the Flood Control Act <\/b>that authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to design and construct projects for the control of floods since 1928. In particular, there’s a Governative Agency called FEMA<\/a>, that support citizens and is committed to respond to and recover from all hazards, like floods. This agency provides a guide to high-risk areas, indicated in the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)<\/a>. These areas need to get an Elevation Certificate<\/strong> that determines their flood insurance.\r\n\r\nIn this way, houses in these areas can be elevated according to the methods explained by FEMA<\/a> regulations. The methods used to elevate a building are different depending on the type of house, the subjected area and the material in which buildings are made. The only thing in common is the amount of elevation. In fact, houses should be elevated according to the BFE<\/strong> of each specific area. BFE is the computed elevation to which floodwater is anticipated to rise during the base flood and can be found in the Flood Insurance Rate Map.<\/a> It is recommended to rise the house up to 3 or 4 feet <\/strong>above the existing ground level and above the BFE, to guarantee a significant protection to the house.\r\n\r\nOn the other hand, there are also solutions that can minimize floods occurrences from the roots. Water management systems<\/strong> can, in fact, mitigate this catastrophic event in urban areas:\r\n