 Rhode Island StormSmart Coasts
Think the home page should look a bit more Rhode Island like….something that has a bit of identity that you are “home”
##RI PHOTOS IN SLIDESHOW
Who is the audience?
Like Massachusetts. where to begins with the links by job. ## IF YOU CAN HELP US, WE CAN DO THIS
RIEMA should have HMPs up and link it to Coast Smart. Or at least examples of good ones. ## WOULD LOVE THIS
Overall – I have a hard time with navigating. Go to the Home and see CRS, TOS, NAI etc, and once you click on them, it is hard
to find out where you are. CRS primer, push it, and loose your way to crs credit summary #HMM. . . IDEAS ON HOW TO
HELP?
Four blocks instead of storm track. Tides online, surf or other cams, Block Island bouy, #??? IF THERE’S A BETTER DATA
SOURCE WE CAN LINK TO, NO PROBLEM
Calendars maybe two so you can have national and RI. ## A NEW, MUCH IMPROVED CALENDAR IS ON THE LIST
Putting the right hand column on each page, beyond the home page, wastes valuable realestate and clutters.
How much flexibility do we have. ## WE CAN DISCUSS THIS
Next steps:
Take it out to a focus group and get their comments on it – has this been done in MA? Similar to RI situation. A student can do
this. Is this having any impact on people’s thinking ##GREAT IDEA
Who maintains this? And for how long? ##DISCUSS
What can we have done by Hurricane Season beginning? ##DISCUSS
How are people using this? How best can we outreach this? ##DISCUSS
We need to see the new WWW architecture and the accompanying word to make changes. ###???
Software to track where people are going? ##YES
Rhode Island StormSmart
Coasts
 About StormSmart Coasts
Community Rating System
(CRS) Primer -
Nice map. Be nice if it could also link to tidesonline. Does it link to the NHC if there is a
tropical storm out there? ##DISCUSS
Like the Noteworthy/blogworthy
Can we add stuff to the calendar now? What is the parameter for how local, for instance the
RIFMA Annual Conference? ##DISCUSS
Looks good. Lots of info in following the links. I spent way too much time on this, but found
some info that will be useful and that I needed to track down (NROC stuff).
Would be nice to link to RI communities that participate, but I don’t think that RIEMA has
those listed anywhere.
List the existing communities. Add Statewide credits.
What you need to do to get into the CRS
Needs a kicker for homeowners. Lower your flood insurance rates.
CRS Credit Summary
Needs to have what you need to do before you can apply (CAV, HMP??). Good links to
FEMA website
Many of these links go to MA but some may still be useful.
Many of these links go to MA, but some of them are still useful.
Maintaining Hazard Inventory – link to HMP? RIGIS e911?
Planning for outside help goes to MA ##??
DCR flood mitigation goes to MA ##??
Technical Assistance goes to MA ##??
Terms of Service
No Adverse Impact (NAI)
NAI-level activities
Move NAI activities list link up. ##OK
MA references OK, should this section include Palazollo?
Creating a multi hazard management plan:
#2 identifying hazards not linked ##?
Legal Introduction
#5 add NRCS, NOAA, ACOE to federal? ##?
Only floodplains? Or should we include other things like SLR, eosion, etc. like the mission
says. ##DISCUSS
Could be nice to have some of the recent court case summaries, or SLR ideas generated by
MS and/or RI.
Anyway to categorize these? It looks like a whole big list this way.
Legal is really more than NAI. Perhaps want it both as general and then also some specific RI
issues like retreat, add Pallazzolo (sp?)
Link to Ocean and Coastal Case Alert
How NAI Can Help
Your Community
Avoid Lawsuits
The Four Types of
Reference to Palazolla?
Regulatory Takings
Why You Should
Manage Your
Floodplains
Recent Relevant Legal
Publications
 After the Storm: Safe and
Smart Recovery
Talk to Mississippi Sea Grant about what they could put on there. Link to all of the law
centers including RI.
Others besides NAI? Megans? Some of the cases referenced in the Sand Dollar?
There is a link from Before the Storm to After the Storm but no link to get back.
Get rid of the link to Ed Thomas and the Michael Baker Corporation.
Need Steps in RI. Who to contact, restrictions on reentering area? the structure (red, yellow,
green?)
Who do you contact
Restrictions on reentering and rebuilding. The tags.
Prohibitions on rebuilding on substantially undeveloped storms. Should we add prohibitions
rebuilding substantially destroyed buildingds on undeveloped barriers? Setback and other
program requirements for substantially destroyed properties?
Add a section for Returning Home
FEMA and Red Cross
Rapid assessment placards
Rebuilding
Link to CRMC fact sheet/flowchart and then hyperlinks to DEM etc. Maybe maps to show
which barriers are substantially undeveloped.
Business IBHS
Clear links for Government, business, and homeowners.
Disaster Assistance, link to FEMA
Insurance links
The Ten Ps of Post-Disaster
Safe Recovery
 Before the Storm: Preparing
Your Community
Identifying Hazards
Potentially Remove ##DONE
Put into Rhode Island Photos. Moving Houses etc.
RI photo Rock house?
Change MA for RI in first sentence ##DONE And in picture (##NECESSARY?)
Somwhere it would be useful to put in the links to RIEMA map status etc.
http://www.riema.ri.gov/prevention/floods/flood_mapping.php
Is there a way on the FEMA sites, or on the flood.org to get a hyperlink to all of RI
communities directly and put it in here?
Finding and Using
Additional Hazard
Information
Is it possible to put in title “Finding and Using Additional Hazard Info IN RI???
All of the hyperklinks make you leave this page. Possible to open up another tab?
Would be nice to have bullets of the key headings up on top with hyperlink to the
paragraphs below: Shoreline Change, Sea level
Change to “accelerating slr and projections”
Interpreting FIRMs and
FIS Reports
Please change “prediction” to “projection” in the section (at least 2x)
While written for Massachusetts… The Art and Science of Identifying Flood Zones
has useful general information on reading FIRMs THAT CAN BE USEFUL FOR RI
AS WELL.
Would be good to acknowlegdge that there is an update going on with firms.
Replace last bullet contact with Michelle Burnett at RIEMA
Use the new FIRMs with ortho backgrounds.
Let Michelle decide whether to use “The Art and Science ….
Making Hazard
Information Available
and Accessible
Sharing Emergency
Hazard Information
Understanding the
Limitations of FIRMs
and FIS reports
Planning
MA info links (Richard Zingarelli), OK to use MA how to? Use RI flood map
illustration?
Change to RI, not MA….See the update at
http://www.riema.ri.gov/prevention/floods/flood_mapping.php
Need to change last paragraph to RI. GIS etc.
Include comment that flood maps may not include all flooding. Can use some of the
NOAA coastal inundation training exercises, showing difference between actual
flooding and FIRM map flood zone.
Elevation examples from Bolivar peninsula, how the FEMA maps can be a foot
off…and you will loose your house.
The graphic is very weird…
Should also state that FIRMs are past or current conditions. They do NOT project future
conditions (SLR, erosion, etc.).
Creating a Local
Last paragraph is all MA references.
First paragraph might include…Local Comp Plan is required in all RI communities as
Comprehensive Plan
a blueprint for growth and the local zoning bylawas.
And…need to delete/replace “Community Presevation Act”
Coastal Construction Manaul stuff is good, but it might be better to consolidate it so you can
see the RI centric stuff easier
Link to RIHPHC?
Creating a MultiHazard Mitigation Plan
Creating a MultiObjective Management
Plan
Creating Risk
Mitigation Strategies
LID links to MA, need to change to RI
Link to the community plans?
#2 identifying hazards not linked
#5 add NRCS, NOAA, ACOE to federal?
Link to communities
More guidance on who to contact at RIEMA, CRMC, RIDEM?
 Regulations & Standards
Conducting Inspections of
Lower-Area Enclosures
Considering Potential Future
Conditions When Siting New
Development
Who does this? Input from Jack and Michelle?
Also link to CRMC setback regs? UCG?
Creating Permanent No-Build
Areas
Link to RI setback policy, setbacks from coastal feature (Jim Boyd’s coastal features
brochure)
Incorporating NFIP
Reference MA Community Action Plan. Anything similar for RI?
Like the list of NFIP coordinators! Do we have a model ordinance? Can we link to it like MA
Requirements into Local
Ordinances and Regulations
Keeping New Public
Infrastructure Out of HazardProne Areas
Passing a Protective Wetlands
Bylaw
Passing Strict Zoning
Ordinances and Regulations
Promote Sustainable
Development Practices
Requiring Foundation/Building
Certification
Using Freeboard to Elevate
Structures above Predicted
Floodwaters
does to the Coastal Floodplain Development?
All MA references. Anything for RI? Towns? ACOE requirements for public projects? Does
Michelle have any regs?
Add CRMC prohibition on new infrastructure on barriers
References MA. Do we have something similar for RI (Association of Conservation
Commissions)?
MA references - Jim Boyd may be up on some RI info, MA Fact sheets may be OK, put in RI
FACCT sheets?
Good (should we link to NBC anywhere in the document?)
Ask Michelle. I think all new buildings in the flood zone are required to do an elevation
certificate. She may have some guidance language and also what the consequences are if you
do not build correctly ($$$ for flood insurance with a variance or for enclosing the bottom
floor. Risks to the NFIP status for the community. At the very least, no CRS).
The diagram/example should note that this was done in MA and might change in specific
locales…or doesn’t it matter?
Again…contact is Rich Zing – you might need to do a global search and change.
Link to RI 1 foot freeboard (and CRMC recommendations?)
For More Information section change Richard Zingarelli to Michelle Burnett
 Mitigation
Acquiring Existing Structures
Are there any other resources than FEMA? What about the NRCS program?
Non-Structural Shore
Protection
Need to write up something that simplifies CRMC prohibitions for structures adjacent to type
1 waters. Nobody can find anything if they just go to the regulations, and I don’t think that
you can link directly to a chapter. Even in cases where structures are allowed (type 2 through
6 waters) there are several criteria that need to be addressed before a permit is issued. Maybe
I could make a brochure or power point. Also Caitlin is working on the living shoreline regs
as an alternative to hardened shorelines.
Reference some of the beneficial reuse projects that we did or are ongoing with the ACOE
(Ninigret, Allin’s Cove, Pt Judith dredging, Regional Sediment Management).
ONLY AS A LAST RESORT:
Flood and Erosion Control
Structures
Relocating Existing Structures
Retrofitting Existing Structures
 Infrastructure
Improving Construction and
Design of Critical Facilities
Insuring Public Buildings
Keeping Roads and Utilities
Out of Damage-Prone Areas
Some of the UCG regs should be referenced especially the LID??
Sounds good, maybe we can put in some living shoreline stuff here as alternative to hard
structures
Photos from RCB, Browning Cottages or Rock?
Looks good to me
Best available info link not linked to anything
DCR links to MA
CZM links to MA
Link to CRMC prohibition on new infrastructure on barriers?
RI photo?
Maintaining an Inventory of
Hazard Risks for All Public
Property
Protecting Critical Access
Routes
Hazards link doesn’t work
Link to RIGIS, RIEMA evacuation maps, and critical facilities maps (Michelle’s workshop
for communities with # of critical facilities and houses in floodzones, can this be adapted for
this website?)
Link to any of the community hazard mitigation plans?
RI flooded road photo?
Siting Critical Facilities Out of
Harm's Way
 Emergency Services
Assessing Damage to
Buildings
Creating a Post-Disaster
Recovery Plan
Does FEMA have regulations against doing this? Maybe link to HMPs
Review for RI
Link to IBHS business recovery
Link to FACCT sheet 1 for guidance on rebuilding?
DCR and CZM link to MA
Community Connection RI does not link
Post Disaster redevelopment plan video doesn’t work
Creating an Emergency
Response Plan
Improving Disaster Response
Coordination
Planning for Outside Help
 Training & Outreach
General Hazard
Awareness
I defer to Michelle on all of these. All links worked.
MAYBE PUT SOME STUFF FROM OUTREACH??/
Link to RIFMA website
STB did a flood level event in Providence – link ask Rachel C?
Hazard Training for
Local Officials
Sources for Outreach
Materials
REVIEW…IS THIS EFFECTIVE?
CRMC outreach- link for CEHRTF doesn’t link
Add Momin’s paper
Add Salt Pond’s Coalition to other groups?
 Contact Us
 During the Storm:
Emergency Contacts &
Information
After the storm
NEED TO CHANGE TO RI http://www.riema.ri.gov/response/contacts/
Link back to Creating a Post-disaster Recovery Plan under before the storm. Wonder if there
are some success stories?
Need to put in something on permitting here. We have our flow chart that we would like to
put in with hyperlinks.
Funding
Funding-What about ACOE?
 FEMA's Community Rating
System (CRS)