Preservation New Jersey’s 2015 Resiliency Workshop Series: Going Up? Coastal Flood Mitigation
Bay Head Yacht Club (Ballroom) 111 Metcalfe Street, Bay Head, NJ, United StatesOne of the great challenges of communities living on the New Jersey coast or along its some 18,126 miles of rivers and streams is how to prepare for inevitable flooding. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) requires that buildings be elevated, moved out of a floodplain, or acquired and demolished to comply with the new flood maps. The hope is that elevating will keep buildings out of the water, but what do wholesale elevations do to a community?
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