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After The Storm: How Hazards Impact Your Community – Text Version

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Shallow Water Bathymetry

How Are These Products Being Used?

Bathymetric baseline data can be used for comparison with post-disaster damage assessment to ascertain where river bottom change has occurred to assist with reconstruction and remediation. The comparison of pre-storm and post-storm baseline data can help identify new obstructions (e.g., sunken vessels).

Who's Using These Products?

Coast Guard, captain of the port, mariners, harbor pilots, and salvage companies

St. Johns River Circulation Model

How Are These Products Being Used?

Provide current levels to assist with the recovery of debris or articles adrift, such as broken piers, pilings, sunken vessels, and construction debris.

Who's Using These Products?

Coast Guard, captain of the port, mariners, harbor pilots, shipping companies, and salvage companies

Observation Systems

How Are These Products Being Used?

• Data are archived to document storm impacts.
• Data are used to formally request presidentially declared disasters, which is a requirement to receive disaster assistance and hazard mitigation funding.

Who's Using These Products?

• Insurance industry and FEMA disaster assistance programs
• State and local emergency managers

Eco-Assessment Project

How Are These Products Being Used?

• Knowledge of where toxins might impact people and natural resources (river, ocean, aquatic species, etc.) can assist with damage assessment and bio-remediation planning.
• Information can be used to identify areas that might be contaminated that could result in the closure of commercial and recreational fishing or oyster harvesting areas.

Who's Using These Products?

• Departments of natural resources personnel, game wardens, marine biologists, natural resource managers, and planners
• Health departments

Data Access and Standards

How Are These Products Being Used?

Real-time data from tugboats and ships are used to let officials know when winds and surge have subsided enough to safely begin recovery operations

Who's Using These Products?

Emergency managers

Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Tool

How Are These Products Being Used?

• Facilitates effective planning for recovery.
• Identifies areas appropriate for hazard mitigation.
• Allows evaluation of the existing hazard mitigation plan and facilitates updating the plan.

Who's Using These Products?

Local officials, emergency managers, and coastal zone managers

Flood Planning and Response Tool

How Are These Products Being Used?

Allows planning for or coordination of re-entry into flooded areas

Who's Using These Products?

Local officials, emergency managers, and coastal zone managers

Outreach and Extension

How Are These Products Being Used?

• Assists in the implementation of response and recovery activities that deal with HAZMAT containment and remediation.
• Assists with damage assessments performed by state and local emergency managers, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the state departments of environmental protection.

Who's Using These Products?

Coast Guard, fire departments and volunteer fire departments, police, and emergency medical services

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