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2023 Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan
Managing Flooding from Mount Rainier to Puget Sound
What is the 2023 Flood Hazard Management Plan?
The purpose of the Pierce County Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan continues to be to create a resilient community by:
- Outlining the County’s local and federal obligations;
- Recommending regional policies, programs, and projects that reduce risks to public health and safety;
- Reducing damage to private improvements as well as critical infrastructure such as roads, highways, ferry landings, assisted living facilities, bridges;
- Reducing maintenance costs; and
- Improving habitat conditions while protecting and maintaining the regional economy.
The 2023 plan takes a new approach to updating Pierce County’s Flood Plan. While past plans only addressed riverine flooding, the 2023 plan will address coastal, groundwater, urban, and riverine flooding. It will identify projects, policies, and that will reduce the impact of major flooding on the community to be implemented over a 10-year period.
The Plan will also ensure those efforts are both financially and physically completable within that timeframe. In addition to moving forward priority projects identified in the 2013 plan, the 2023 plan will identify studies needed to inform future capital projects in the 2033 plan.
To better understand residents and stakeholders experiences with flooding and their preferences for future flood risk reduction projects, Pierce County recently conducted an online survey. A total of 231 people took part in our survey. Thank you to those of you who responded! Your responses will make sure that we are including important information in the study and prioritizing the right values as the work continues.
What did we hear?
- Most survey participants live or own property in Pierce County.
- Many of the survey participants have experienced flooding, ranging from low to severe in nature.
- Most survey participates experienced flooding on their property or their street was flooded.
What will we do with the feedback?
- The results from this survey help us learn from the community’s experiences with flooding in the County. We will use this information to gather where, when, and what types of flooding (coastal, groundwater, urban, and riverine) happens in the County.
- We heard that you want to stay connected, so as this plan progresses, we will send periodic updates about progress we will continue to be available for questions.
Although the EIS comment period has closed, the floodplain survey is still available for you to take. If you would like to complete the survey, please follow this link http://piercecountywa.gov/floodsurvey as we look forward to hearing from you.