Urban Flood Management: Problems and Research Needs

Discussion and conclusions of a 1975 panel on urban flood management at the Quail Roost Workshop on Reorientation of Water Resources Research. Topics covered include the need for a restatement of national goals and objectives in terms relevant to state and local interests to standards of performance; Federal, state, and local interactions as they affect the capacity of local government to carry out flood-plain management; more exact and reliable techniques for flood-plain delineation for land-use regulation and flood insurance rates; social and economic consequences of floodway fringe development under present national policy; and many other subjects. Forty-two problem areas are identified for further identification and research.