State Flood Planning 2024 Supporting Documents

2024 State Flood Plan Adoption and Public Comment Responses

• Adoption of the 2024 State Flood Plan - TWDB Board item to consider adoption of the 2024 State Flood Plan. The document includes a summary of substantive changes made to the plan in response to public comments.

Please submit any questions or concerns to the TWDB Flood Planning Division, StateFloodPlan@twdb.texas.gov.

Public Comments on the Draft 2024 State Flood Plan

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) received public comments on the Draft 2024 State Flood Plan from May 10 to June 17, 2024. The public comment period is now closed. The 2024 State Flood Plan will go before the Board at the August 15, 2024 Board meeting.

The TWDB received verbal comments concerning the Draft 2024 State Flood Plan at a public meeting held on May 30, 2024 in Austin, Texas.

Watch the recorded public comment meeting HERE.

TWDB Seeking Public Feedback on the DRAFT 2024 State Flood Plan

Submission Deadline Has Ended. Contact us with any questions.

The public comment period for the Draft 2024 State Flood Plan is now open. The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) will receive public comments until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 17, 2024.

• Volume I: Draft 2024 State Flood Plan
• Volume II: Appendix B Ranked List of Recommended Flood Risk Reduction Solutions

Please submit any questions or concerns to the TWDB Flood Planning Division, StateFloodPlan@twdb.texas.gov.

TWDB Seeking Preliminary Feedback on Potential Policy Recommendations for the DRAFT 2024 State Flood Plan

The TWDB held a public Work Session on Thursday, April 4, at 9am to seek preliminary public feedback on potential policy recommendations that the Board considered for inclusion in Texas' first draft state flood plan. The work session was held at Barbara Jordan State Office Building, 1601 Congress Ave, Austin, Texas; RM 2.035.

The input received during the work session and through an online form, was considered for the 2024 Draft State Flood Plan. Note that the public also had the opportunity to comment on the policy recommendations included in the full Draft 2024 State Flood Plan.

Soliciting Stakeholder Feedback on Proposed Methods for Ranking Recommended Flood Mitigation Projects

Submission Deadline Has Ended. Contact us with any questions.

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) solicited public feedback on proposed methods for ranking recommended Flood Management Evaluations (FME), Flood Mitigation Projects (FMP), Flood Management Strategies (FMS) in the 2024 State Flood Plan. The intent of the TWDB ranking methods for the state flood plan is to provide a consistent approach to be used across all Texas regions to systematically address, in general, the flood hazard with most population, properties and critical facilities at risk first in the state during a 1% annual chance flood. The proposed process aims to result in a ranking with focus on (a) severity of flood risk and (b) reduction of flood risk and impact to life and property as required by 86th Texas Legislature Senate Bill 8. For maximum transparency, the actual spreadsheets with ranking criteria, weightings, the project data, and the resulting rankings were provided to stakeholders as part of this feedback solicitation process.

To keep with the bottom-up approach of the regional flood planning program, TWDB has elected to utilize only RFPG-reported data for ranking. The resulting rankings are based on the reported technical merits of each RFPG-recommended FME, FMP, and FMS.

Please use the links below to download supporting information and each Excel workbook for ranking FME, FMP, and FMS, respectively. The data provided in each workbook was compiled from the fifteen regional flood plans. This data is considered DRAFT data and provided for ranking feedback purposes ONLY.

• Supporting Information
• Proposed Ranking Criteria and Weight
• Flood Management Evaluations (FME) Workbook
• Flood Mitigation Projects (FMP) Workbook
• Flood Management Solutions (FMS) Workbook

Note: While inclusion in the state flood plan is a requirement for eligibility for future FIF project funding, the associated rankings are not intended for allocating state funding. Future funding decisions will occur through a separate TWDB process if and when funds are appropriated by the Texas Legislature. How the state flood plan project ranking may be considered in future flood project funding prioritization and allocation processes remains to be determined although it is anticipated that the state flood plan ranking will be at least one of the considerations.

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For questions about the State Flood Plan, please contact Reem Zoun or Tressa Olsen