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National Flood Safety Awareness Week - March 15-19, 2010
This week serves as a great opportunity for you to remind your community residents that a flood insurance policy is the best financial protection against flooding and that most homeowners insurance policies do NOT cover flood damage.
Floodsmart, NOAA, & FEMA have collaborated on this new interactive web page www.floodsmart.gov/noaafloodweek showing the recent and past years flood history and cost of damages from at the national, state, and local levels. Indiana has one of the highest totals for property damages in the nation.
We encourage you to link to this Flood Safety Awareness Week page and share this information with your community residents so they can learn more about the financial costs of flooding, how to get a policy, and in the event that a flood occurs, how best to recover.
Indiana CFM List is Growing
The newest CFMs in Indiana are Jason Armour, Pendleton; Greg Bryan, Indianapolis; Jeffrey Fanyo, Bloomington; Clinton Ferguson, Greenwood; Eric Henion, Angola; Ginger Korinek, Sullivan; Jason Miller, Marion; Joseph Miller, Plainfield; Daniel O’Toole, Westfield; Natalie Stephen, Indianapolis; Andrew Taylor, Indianapolis; Laura Theilking, Fishers; Jonathan Valenta, Fishers; Trudy Weddington, Noblesville; and Gina Weilbaker, Chesterton. This brings the total number of CFMs in Indiana to 78. See entire list.
INAFSM Webcast Series
Over the course of the next several weeks, INAFSM will be putting together a webcast series on various floodplain and stormwater management topics. If you have suggestions on topics, or would be interested in conducting a webinar on your area of expertise, please contact the Outreach Chair for additional information.
The Indiana Map
IndianaMap.org is the public source for map data in Indiana. It includes the information people need most in a format that is accessible to both the general public and expert geographic information systems (GIS) users.
The IndianaMap is a portfolio of projects that involve the collaborative efforts of federal, state, and local partners. The purpose of these efforts is to acquire, improve, and deliver a wide variety of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data for Indiana.
The IndianaMap Viewer is an interactive map that can be used to view and query more than 220 layers of GIS data through the web. The available data include aerial photographs, land cover, reference layers, and layers related to infrastructure, demography, environment, hydrology, and geology.
IndianaMap data are available for download from the Indiana Spatial Data Portal (UITS), the IndianaMap Viewer (IGS), and other data providers. Selected data are also available on DVD-ROM from public libraries.