Roderick D. ScottL & R Resources, LLC
Mandeville, LA/Ocean City, NJ
POST SANDY HAZARD MITIGATION –
ELEVATIONIN NEW JERSEY
POST SANDY
POST SANDY
Elevation preserves resources – every 1,000 square foot of wood frame house = 250 trees
Elevation preserves diversity of population at the shore by preserving more affordable buildings
Elevation preserves the memories – people are attached to the buildings through their family memories
Elevation is cheaper that demolition and new build and it preserves rateables/revenues for communities
WHY ELEVATION
For the fist time in this country the elevation industry undertook a public education program for flood disaster
impacted communities.“Hazard Mitigation – Elevation 101”
POST SANDY EDUCATION
POST SANDY EDUCATION
+15 communities to date in person = 4,000
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4 - You Tube postings of presentation now over 11,000 viewings
POST SANDY EDUCATION
Property owners need to be educated and encouraged to flood hazard mitigate/elevate
“Hazard Mitigation – Elevation 101”
This program is still available for your community - FREE
POST SANDY EDUCATION
POST SANDY STATISTICS
+300,000 FLOODED STRUCTURES
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?# NON-COMPLIANT TO NEW FLOOD MAP ELEVATIONS – ?50%, ?75%, ?90%
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NFIP COVERED AVERAGE OF > 20% OF FLOODED STRUCTURES
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NJ COMMUNITIES BY-PASS ORDINANCES
REQUIRING SUB-DAM PROPERTIES TO MITIGATE WITH
REBUILDING
BRICK TOWNSHIP DATAArcadis Corporation collected
8424 Homes flooded and in impact area8307 Homes evaluated by on the ground
engineers3549 Potential elevation projects1,000 + Voluntary Participation Forms for
HMGP program filled out
POST SANDY STATISTICS
ELEVATION INDUSTRY
POST SANDY ELEVATIONS
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PRE SANDY(est) > 20 ELEVATION COMPANIES/JACKING MACHINES
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PRE SANDY(est) > 20 ELEVATION COMPANIES/JACKING MACHINES
POST SANDY ELEVATIONS
PRE SANDY > 200 ELEVATED PER YEAR, est.
POST SANDY ELEVATIONS
POST SANDY < 50 ELEVATION COMPANIES/JACKING MACHINES
POST SANDY HAZARD MITIGATION – ELEVATION
This flood hazard mitigation/elevation cycle will be
the largest in History due to changes in the flood insurance
laws
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To date around 1,000 NJ elevations with private funding.
Unknown how many used NFIP/ICC
POST SANDY HAZARD MITIGATION – ELEVATION
$100 million HMGP = +3,000 elevationsRREM Phase 1 = around 1,500 elevationsRREM Phase 2 = ??? elevations
POST SANDY HAZARD MITIGATION – ELEVATION
+400,000 buildings need elevation in NJ – rough
estimate
POST SANDY HAZARD MITIGATION – ELEVATION
FEMA estimates 88,000 NJ-NFIP buildings need elevation
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At this rate of elevation it will take 80 years to just elevate NFIP buildings that
are non-compliant and 400 years at 1,000/elevated per year
NJ FLOOD HAZARD MITIGATION ISSUES:
Lack of good solid requirements for contractor registration – same as in gulf states has resulted in many newcomers claiming to be elevation experts has resulted in multiple houses dropped and three injured to date.
Lack of home elevation education/training which is required to build elevation industry capacity to meet ultimate demand
Lack of New Jersey based elevation contractors
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POST SANDY HAZARD MITIGATION – ELEVATION
THE FLOOD HAZARD MITIGATION/ELEVATION
INDUSTRY IS DEDICATED TO REBUILDING NEW JERSEY SAFER
AND STRONGER
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