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Nature-Based Hazard Mitigation Case Study: Advance Assistance—Data Collection and Rebuilding Natural Infrastructure in Ashland County, Wisconsin

1 Apr 2021

The result is a loss of flood storage and an inability of the floodplain to slow the flow of subsequent flood waters, putting downstream infrastructure at risk. [...] The County experienced extreme physical and financial damage from the severe storms in 2016 and 2018, with flash flooding causing $25 million and $13.1 million in damages to infrastructure, respectively.5 In response, 1 Rebuilding Natural Infrastructure in Ashland County -- First FEMA-Supported Natural Flood Management Project in Wisconsin, Wis. [...] The study provided the background information and basis for the County to apply for and receive funding from FEMA’s Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program for the Advance Assistance project in 2019. [...] The project aims to address the information gaps identified in the WWA 2018 report.8 The Project The Proposal The purpose of the County’s Advance Assistance project is to generate data and analytic tools to help stakeholders develop and implement Natural Flood Management strategies to increase the resilience of public infrastructure to flooding. [...] Wisconsin Act 157 Wisconsin Act 157 allocates $150,000 to Ashland County to be used on up to three demonstration projects that “test natural flood risk reduction practices in the county.”18 Benefits Ashland County and communities downstream from the study area will benefit from “access to better data and decision support tools to plan and implement nature-based flood defenses such as FEH mitigatio
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