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Proposed Order on Floodplain Development
July 27, 2009
The White House is considering a new executive order to limit floodplain development. The proposal covers roughly the same federal licensing, project, and funding decisions as NEPA. The heart of the proposal is section 4, which unlike NEPA imposes a substantive requirement (preventing or mitigating floodplain development.) The proposed language is after the jump. This is a very constructive step — we can’t keep putting people and infrastructure in harm’s way, nor can we allow development that increases flood risks elsewhere.
The Association of State Flood Plains Managers has a very helpful website. Information about flood issues can also be found in Berkeley’s archive on disasters and the law....
Grand Ole Opry closed due to flooding
Spiritual home of American country music forced to relocate after record-breaking rains hit Nashville, Tennessee
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 May 2010 13.02 BST Sean Michaels
...Record-breaking rains have led to flooding across Tennessee, and the rising Cumberland river has caused the closure of numerous Nashville buildings. However, no institution is as esteemed as the Opry, a weekly country revue, located at its current site since 1974. Officials do not yet know how long the Opry will be closed, nor how much damage has been sustained. Photographs of the stage door show that the water level is above the doorknob, and floodwaters at a nearby hotel had reached three metres by Monday afternoon....http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/05/grand-ole-opry-closed-flooding
Nashville residents return to homes as Cumberland River begins to recede
12:00 AM CDT on Wednesday, May 5, 2010
...A record-breaking weekend storm dumped more than a foot of rain in two days, rapidly spilling water into homes, roads and some of Music City's top attractions.
Floodwaters and tornadoes killed at least 28 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky. As the water began to recede, bodies were recovered from homes, a yard and a wooded area outside a Nashville supermarket.
By Tuesday, the flash floods were blamed in the deaths of 17 people in Tennessee alone, including nine in Nashville. Authorities initially said 10 people were killed by floods in the city, but on Tuesday, they said one of those people died of natural causes.
Hundreds of people have been rescued by boat and canoe from their flooded homes over the last few days. Those operations were winding down in Nashville on Tuesday.
It remained unclear how many – if any – people were missing in Tennessee....
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-floods_05nat.ART.State.Edition1.9194e.html
Flood victim found in field; Tenn. toll hits 18
TRENTON, Tenn. — Emergency authorities in Tennessee say the death toll from weekend flooding has risen with the discovery of a man's body in a field in the west of the state.The Jackson Sun says the man was swept away Sunday while walking on a road.
Carol Fite of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency confirmed that another body was found. No one was available early Wednesday at the Gibson County Sheriff's Office to provide the victim's identity.
The state's flood death toll stands at 18. A tornado in western Tennessee also killed another person at the weekend.
The water is slowly receding in Nashville, where nine of the deaths and most of the damage occurred....
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h87GMzKVJcVvgjfYT9n4QC0F8tegD9FGLHF02
