AS TEMPERATURES RISE, THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS MUST IMPROVE THE NATION’S FLOOD-CONTROL SYSTEM
Executive Summary
Flood damages have increased three-fold in real dollars since Congress first immersed the federal government in the national effort to build flood-control projects in the 1920s. And that was before Hurricane Katrina.
Flawed flood-control programs...
Flawed federal insurance program....
Recommendations for reform...
New Mexico expectations on flooding: Engineering design standards are currently based on the assumption that climate is stable:for example, that today’s “100-year flood” will be the same 20, 50, or 75 years from now.
But the projected rate of climate change might mean that 50 years from now, today’s “100- year flood” can be expected to recur about every 20 years.
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