The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System Assessing Pre-Katrina Vulnerability and Improving Mitigation and Preparedness (2009) / Chapter Skim
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The IPET studies also have made significant contributions to simulating hurricane impacts and characterizing the collective effects of hurricane damage. The modeling procedures developed by IPET to help visualize and manage risk in communities impacted by Hurricane Katrina 1
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It also contains a recommendation regarding interagency cooperation, and concludes with recommendations regarding organization and presentation of the entire IPET draft final report. Volume VIII Among the important findings from Volume VIII is a set of inundation maps for the New Orleans metro region.
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Although IPET, FEMA, and NOAA have different objectives and product needs, these agencies should engage in ongoing communication and coordinate to ensure consistency among their methods and the resulting products. Full Draft Final Report Volume I of the IPET report, entitled Executive Summary and Overview, contains much interesting and useful information, and readers will turn to it expecting to see primary findings and recommendations.
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This section presents this NAE/NRC committee's views on the primary lessons learned during the Hurricane Katrina experience, as well as advice on how they might be acted upon and responded to. It reflects the committee's review of the IPET report and the committee's collective experience in geotechnical engineering, hurricane wave and storm studies and modeling, water resources planning, and natural hazards mitigation and preparedness.
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The voluntary relocation of people and neighborhoods out of particularly vulnerable areas -- with adequate resources designed to improve their safety in less vulnerable areas -- should be considered as a viable public policy option. Floodproofing Measures When voluntary relocations are not viable, floodproofing measures will be an essential complement to protective structures -- such as levees and floodwalls -- in improving public safety in the New Orleans region from hurricanes and induced storm surge.
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In order to enhance the communication and appreciation of these risks, it will be important to extend the efforts of the IPET and to refine, simplify, and communicate consistently the risks of hurricanes and storm surge to the region's residents, including how those risks vary across the region. Effective communication of the risk-based findings from the entire IPET report will be enhanced by creating a professional summary and compilation of the entire IPET draft report with layman's terminology (see earlier recommendation in this report)
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It is essential that these analyses be extended and subsequently built upon by the Corps of Engineers and others, including the FEMA, NOAA, the State of Louisiana, New Orleans regional municipalities, and the region's universities, engineers, and scientists. To facilitate future work that builds on the IPET studies, a publicly accessible archive of all data, models, model results, and model products from the IPET project should be created.
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