APPENDIX 2 FLOODPROOF MEASURES OVERVIEW

What Is Floodproofing

Dry Floodproofing – A combination of measures that results in a structure being watertight with all elements substantially impermeable to the entrance of floodwater with structural components having the capacity to resist flood loads.

What does this mean?

 Keep water out of the building and make sure the water outside the building doesn’t break the structure.

Wet Floodproofing – The use of flood-damage-resistant materials and construction techniques to minimize flood damage to areas below the flood protection level of a structure (which is intentionally allowed to flood).

What does this mean?

 Allow water to get into the building, under controlled terms, and then force it out.