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No Adverse Impact Floodplain Management

No Adverse Impact
No Adverse Impact Committee
NAI Toolkit
No Adverse Impact : a toolkit for common sense floodplain management
NAI Toolkit How-to-Guides
NAI How-to Guide for Emergency Services

NAI How-to Guide for Hazard Identification and Floodplain Mapping

NAI How-to Guide for Regulations and Development Standards

NAI How-to Guide for Education & Outreach

NAI How-to Guide for Planning

NAI How-to Guide for Mitigation

NAI How-to Guide for Infrastructure

Coastal No Adverse Impact Handbook
Coastal No Adverse Impact Handbook – English

Coastal No Adverse Impact Handbook – Spanish

Web Links
Massachusetts Office of COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT (NAI)

Environmental Protection Agency – Potecting Water Resources with Smart Growth

NOAA’s State of the Coasts

Other NAI Documents
NAI White Paper

NAI – A Common Sense Strategy for Floodplain Management Presentation

No Adverse Impact Case Studies, 2004

Common Legal Questions about Floodplain Regulations in the Courts

Legal Questions: Government Liability and No Adverse Impact Floodplain Management

No Adverse Impact: Community Liability and Property Rights: As Mayor or County Commissioner, should you worry about your liability in the event of a flood?

No Adverse Impact Status Report: Helping Communities Implement NAI, 2002

Property Rights and Community Liability: The Legal Framework for Managing Watershed Development, 2007

Legal Questions: Government Liability and No Adverse Impact Floodplain Management

Community Liability and Property Rights: As Mayor or County Commissioner, should you worry about your liability in the event of a flood?

Legal Issues In Upgrading Flood Maps To Reflect Climate Change, Other Changed Conditions by Jon Kusler, Esq. (04/2016)

A Comparative Look at Public Liability for Flood Hazard Mitigation by Dr. Jon A. Kusler (2/09)

Edward A. Thomas & Sam Riley Medlock, Mitigating Misery: Land Use and Protection of Property Rights Before the Next Big Flood, 9 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 155 (2008).

NAI Protecting the Property Rights of All: NAI Floodplain and Storm Water Management by Edward A. Thomas, Esq (4/08)

NAI and the Courts: Protecting the Property Rights of all- Updated by Jon A. Kusler, Esq. and Edward A. Thomas, Esq (11/07)

Professional Liability for Construction in Flood Hazard Areas by Jon A. Kusler, Esq. (9/07)

NAI Community Liability – Watershed Development (5/07)

What the Rapanos – Carabell Wetlands Decisions Mean to Floodplain and Stormwater Managers by Edward A. Thomas, Esq (10/06)

NAI – Liability for Water Control Structure Failure Due to Flooding by Edward A. Thomas, Esq (9/06)

Brief of Amicus Curiae Association of State Floodplain Managers, Inc. in Support of the State of New Jersey

State of New Jersey Supreme Court Clerk’s Syllabus Mansoldo v. State of New Jersey

Courts Issue Good News for Floodplain Management: By Edward A. Thomas, Esq (8/05)

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