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Water, Flooding & Wetland Restoration Links

This page provides links to various Internet sites that may be of interest to floodplain management professionals and educators in Nevada, Hawaii, and California. If you know of other sites likely to be of interest or useful to floodplain managers, please email your suggestion to the .

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEMA Home Page

• FEMA Insurance Outreach Toolkit for Flood Map Updates
• FEMA Flood Index Page
• FEMA Map Service Center
• Mitigation and Insurance (NFIP)
• National Mitigation Strategy
• State and Local Guide for All Hazard Emergency Operations

National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration

NOAA Home Page

• National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
• Climate Prediction Center
• Climate System

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National Weather Service

National Weather Service Home Page

• Interactive Weather Information Network
• National Climate Data Center
• National Severe Storms Laboratory
• National Warning Area
• National Product Area
• River Forecast Centers
  • CA-NV River Forecast Center
  • Northwest River Forecast Center
    

Natural Resources Conservation Service

• Natural Resources Conservation Service Home Page
• USDA's News Release Index

Scientific Organizations

• American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society
• California Wetlands Information System
• National Science Foundation
• World Health Organization - Flooding and Communicable Diseases Fact Sheet
• World Meteorological Organization

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State Agencies And Programs

• California
  • California Bay-Delta Authority
  • Coastal Commission
  • California Rivers Assessment
  • California Planning and Conservation League
  • Dept. of Water Resources
  • Office of Emergency Services
  • Proposition 40 Project Awards
  • FloodSAFE (Prop 1E & 84) Levee Rebuilding
• Hawaii
  • Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
  • Pacific Disaster Center
  • State of Hawaii, Dept. of Land and Natural Resources, Engineering Branch, Floodplain Management
  • State of Hawaii, Dept. of Land and Natural Resources, Water Resource Management
• Nevada
  • Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR)
  • Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR)
  • Washoe County Department of Water Resources

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• Civil Works Directorate Home Page
  • News Releases
• Floodplain Management Services Program
• Hydrologic Engineering Center
  • Software Catalog
• Waterways Experiment Station
• Wetlands Regulations
• Wetlands Delineation Manual

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Department of the Interior Homepage

• Bureau of Land Management Home Page
  • Regulatory Actions
• Bureau of Reclamation Home Page
• Fish & Wildlife Service Home Page
  • Bird Habitat Grants
  • Endangered Species Grants
  • National Wetlands Inventory
• U.S. Geological Survey Home Page
  • Index of Press Releases
  • Geographical Information Systems - GIS
  • United States Surface-Water Data Retrieval
• National Park Service Home Page
  • Water Resources Division
  • Wetlands

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Other Sources for Weather Related Information

• The Weather Channel Site Guide
• Private Weather Service Providers
• Atlantic Hurricane Tracking Data By Year
• NWS: Current flooding
• NWS: Significant River Flooding Outlook

Hydrological Reports, Drought and Flood Conditions or Potential

• NWS: National Hydrologic Assessment
• NWS: Current hydrologic conditions (several kinds of reports)
• NWS: Water supply outlooks
• USGS: Real Time Water Data
• NWS: River conditions
• NWS: Snow conditions

• NWCC: Western water supplies and outlooks

 Flood Safety and Preparedness

• Floods Are Weather's Biggest Killers
• Slot Canyons: Death Traps In Flash Floods
• NWS: Hurricane Flooding, A Deadly Inland Danger

 Flood and Drought History

• NWS: U.S. Flood Damage Since 1903
• NWS: Day-By-Day Flood Summaries Since 1997
• USGS: Significant 20th Century U.S. Floods

 International

• NIWA - New Zealand
• World Meteorological Organization
• Asset Management (infrastructure) Manuals and Guidelines

General Interest

• Annotated Bibliography on Floodproofing
• Brown & Caldwell - Pacific Northwest Water News
• California Coastal Coalition
• California Watershed Assessment Manual
• Water Education Foundation
• Water Terminology (Metropolitan Water District)

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Disaster Research

• Natural Hazards Research and Application Center
  • Natural Hazards Observer Newsletter
  • Disaster Research Newsletter
• European Conference on Advances in Flood Research

Educational

• 42eXplore - Floods and Flooding Topic
• Ecology Protectors Society
• iCivilEngineer.com Famous Dams
• KidsKonnect.com Disaster Preparedness
• The Teacher's Corner - Weather Page
• University of Florida GeoPlan, the Geo-Facilities Planning and Information Research Center
• University of Oregon - Partners for Disaster Resistance and Resilience
• Water Education Foundation

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