Floodplain Management (FPM)
Floodplain Management (FPM) : "Flood plain management (FPM) is a continuing process, involving both Federal and non-Federal action, that seeks a balance between use and environmental quality in the management of the inland and coastal flood plains as components of the larger human communities. The flood damage reduction aspects of flood plain management involve modifying floods and modifying the susceptibility of property to flood damages. The former embraces the physical measures commonly called "flood control;" the latter includes regulatory and other measures intended to reduce damages by means other than modifying flood waters. By guiding flood plain land use and development, flood plain regulations seek to reduce future susceptibility to flood hazards and damages consistent with the risk involved and serve in many cases to preserve and protect natural flood plain values". (USACE, Water Resources Policies and Authorities - Digest of Water Resources Policies and Authorities, 1999, 13-1)
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