As many as 429,000 homes and businesses have an 80% or higher chance of flooding by 2053 in SoCal counties, but communities, non-profits and government agencies are developing programs to educate and restructure water issues in Southern California.
But in Alicia Gonzalez's Sun Valley neighborhood, she said they've been relatively safe when it comes to flooding.
"And then from there, we just kept talking. And I'm a big mouth, I'm very friendly," she said. "So, I just kind of started getting involved."Swales on the edge of the properties, which are shallow channels where water can run off or soak into the drainage systemsA reimagined alleyway in the neighborhood with a pedestrian path, rocks at the ends to capture trash in the event rain does come, and an infiltration system underneath to capture water.
"FEMA maps flooding, mostly from rivers and streams and coastal flooding, they don't map flooding from rainfall," said Jochen Schubert, a research specialist atand he said there's been change in the land development since the FEMA maps were built. More concrete, for example: Schubert, who is familiar with the First Street Foundation maps, said the model includes flooding from rainfall, unlike the FEMA maps.
As a result, First Street Foundation researchers believe many of those property owners have received no information from FEMA and may not fully understand - or underestimate - their future flood risk. Peterson, from the Department of Insurance, said not only are the FEMA maps potentially outdated, "but these are risks that are accelerating to a certain degree because of climate events."
"But nowadays, we need to think about how can we collect that water? How can we harvest it? How can we maintain it and hold it close to us, so that we can increase our water supply so that we can manage a work with that water to provide irrigation," he continued. "It should have been done before, right? When the city was built. But they didn't have the information," he continued.
So far, the program has funded more than 300 projects and studies. More than 200 of those projects improve flood protection, according to the
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