Helpful Resources
General Materials
The following guides, checklists and other materials, most of them referred to in the CRS Coordinator’s Manual, are optional aids to help communities with their CRS programs.
- CRS Credit for Flood Warning and Response Programs Document In Development
- 600-Series Self-Assessment—A self-guiding questionnaire to help communities gather and document the information needed for credit for warning and response. (View on website)
Activity 610 (Flood Warning and Response)
- Documentation Quick Check (⬇Download .docx)
- Maps as Cornerstones of Flood Warning and Response (⬇Download .pdf)
- NOAA StormReady (View on NOAA website)
- NOAA TsunamiReady (View on NOAA website)
Activity 620 (Levees)
- Example Documents
- “Living With Levees” brochure (⬇Download .pdf)
- A sample levee notice for property owners (⬇Download .pdf)
Activity 630 (Dams)
- FEMA’s Dam Safety Program (View on FEMA website)
- State Dam Safety Scores (⬇Download .pdf)
- Class 4 Prerequisite Guidance—A summary of what a community subject to inundation due to dam failure must do to achieve CRS Class 4. (⬇Download .pdf)
- Guidance on Dam Failure Inundation Mapping (⬇Download .pdf)
- Federal Guidelines for Inundation Mapping of Flood Risks Associated with Dam Incidents and Failures (⬇Download .pdf)
- FEMA Geospatial Dam Break, Rapid EAP, Consequence and Hazards GIS Toolkit (View on FEMA website)
- United State Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams (View on USACE website)
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