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San Antonio Regional Flood Planning Group
Community Survey
Thank you for coming to this website to learn more about the San Antonio Regional Flood Planning Group’s (SARFPG) activities to develop a plan to prevent and reduce flooding in this entire region. By informing you of its goals, the SARFPG is seeking to enhance your understanding of the kinds of activities included in flood prevention and reduction. We are asking you to review the goal statements listed below and indicate your level of support for these goals.
Before we ask you to give us your opinion on the goals, it might be helpful to provide definitions of some of the terms and acronyms used in the statements. Definitions include:
NFIP-National Flood Insurance Program
FEMA-Federal Emergency Management Agency
FPR-Flood Planning Region
NBS-Nature-based Solutions: actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits.
100-year flood- indicates the likelihood of a given flood event to be equaled or exceeded in any given year. In other words, there’s one chance in a hundred that a flood like that would happen again in one year.
1% chance future conditions floodplain- the 100-year flood estimated inundation boundary due to a creek or river.
500-year flood- Indicates there is a one in 500 chance that any given flood event may happen again in one year.
NFHL- National Flood Hazard Layer- current effective flood hazard data to support the National Flood Insurance Program. You can use the information to better understand your level of flood risk and type of flooding.
FIS- Flood Insurance Study - A compilation and presentation of flood risk data for specific watercourses, lakes, and coastal flood hazard areas within a community.
Below you will find summary statements of the SARFG’s goals for the next 30 years. Some are expected to be achieved in 10 years and others are on the 30-year planning horizon.
(Please note that the statements below are summaries of the actual goal statements. If you would like to see the complete goal statements, along with their with success measures, please go to www.region12texas.org.) This survey includes a scale to allow you to indicate your level of agreement with the statement. Please indicate by checking the appropriate box below.