Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan

This page contains information about and links to DRAFT materials being prepared to update Old Saybrook's Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan. Please note that these materials are draft and are being placed online for public review and comment.

The Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan Committee Members included:

• Bob Missel, Planning Commission, NHMP Committee Chairman
• Janis Esty, Planning Commission
• Cathy Flanagan, Planning Commission
• John Talbot, Zoning Commission
• Jerry Brophy, Conservation Commission
• Steven Gernhardt, Board of Selectmen and
• Thomas Stevenson, Board of Finance

Draft Plan Elements:

• Executive Summary
• Draft Plan (Please note: this is a large pdf file > 35 MB in size)
• Mitigation Action Items (this is an Excel spreadsheet that summarizes and ranks each action item using FEMA's recommended STAPLEE method)

Draft Plan Maps in PDF format - for printing at 11 by 17 (note: each map is ~ 5 MB in size and may take awhile to download)

• Locational Map
• 100-Year Flood Zone Map (the flood zone is based on FIRMs effective February 6, 2013)
• Land Cover
• Land Use
• Critical Facilities
• Buildings at Risk
• Zoning
• Critical Habitats
• Hurricane Inundation Areas
• Buildings Potentially Isolated Due to Flooded Roads

Other Resources:

• CT Coastal Hazards (2009 DEEP Report on the status of coastal hazards in the state)
• Coastal Resilience Program (TNC's interactive mapping site that shows potential cumulative impacts from sea-level rise and hurricanes)
• CT Coastal Hazards (DEEP's website that discusses natural hazards and their impacts on coastal resources)
• CT Coastal Hazards Map (DEEP's interactive mapping site that shows impacts of sea-level rise mean high water)
• Severe Weather Primer (this is a good source of information from NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory about various storm types and their impacts)
• Drought Monitoring (this website shows drought status in the northeast)

Real-time Weather Data:

• NWS Radar Image (radar image centered on CT)
• National Hurricane Center (NOAA site useful for tracking tropical storms and hurricane formation and predicted track)
• Severe Weather Predictions (NOAA site that displays current severe weather situations throughout the US)
• My Sound (UConn portal to real-time data about conditions in Long Island Sound)