Instructor: William Nechamen, CFM,  Bill is a Certified Floodplain Manager with 28 years of experience, including 21 years with the Department of Environmental Conservation's Floodplain Management Section. Bill is also a former Chair of both the New York State Floodplain and Stormwater Managers Association and the national Association of State Floodplain Managers.

Description: 

This three-hour webinar will help the user find, utilize, and interpret FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and Flood Insurance Studies. In particular, you will learn how to find the flood map for any location of interest, how to determine the flood zone and the Base Flood Elevation, and how maps can be amended through FEMA's Letters of Map Change.  We will go over the history of flood maps and their changing levels of detail. We will help you find the current flood map and interpret the information on the map panel and the map index. We will go over Flood Insurance Studies and how to utilize them to determine a more accurate flood elevation. We will go over the use of and process of obtaining Letters of Map Amendment and Letters of Map Revision. Note that Letters of Map Revision require detailed engineering which we will not go over. However we will discuss the uses for Letters of Map Revision.

• CECs/PDHs
  • Certified Floodplain Manager, ASFPM: 3 credits
  • Code Credit, New York State Department of State: 3 hours
    
    
  Registration Fees:
  • NYSFSMA Members: $50
  • Free for NYSFSMA members who are New York State Code officials with a student training ID.
  • All Non-Members of NYSFSMA: $100
  • You can become an individual member of NYSFSMA for only $40 at nyfloods.org