Roderick D. Scott L & R Resources, LLC Mandeville, LA/Ocean City, NJ

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

For the fist time in this country the elevation industry undertook a public education program for flood disaster impacted communities. Hazard Mitigation – Elevation 101

+15 communities to date in person = 4,000

4 - You Tube postings of presentation now over 11,000 viewings

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

+300,000 FLOODED STRUCTURES

?# NON-COMPLIANT TO NEW FLOOD MAP ELEVATIONS – ?50%, ?75%, ?90%

NFIP COVERED AVERAGE OF > 20% OF FLOODED STRUCTURES

NJ COMMUNITIES BY-PASS ORDINANCES REQUIRING SUB-DAM PROPERTIES TO MITIGATE WITH REBUILDING

BRICK TOWNSHIP DATA Arcadis Corporation collected 8424 Homes flooded and in impact area 8307 Homes evaluated by on the ground engineers 3549 Potential elevation projects 1,000 + Voluntary Participation Forms for HMGP program filled out

ELEVATION INDUSTRY

PRE SANDY(est) > 20 ELEVATION COMPANIES/JACKING MACHINES

PRE SANDY > 200 ELEVATED PER YEAR, est.

POST SANDY < 50 ELEVATION COMPANIES/JACKING MACHINES

This flood hazard mitigation/elevation cycle will be the largest in History due to changes in the flood insurance laws

To date around 1,000 NJ elevations with private funding. Unknown how many used NFIP/ICC

$100 million HMGP = +3,000 elevations RREM Phase 1 = around 1,500 elevations RREM Phase 2 = ??? elevations

+400,000 buildings need elevation in NJ – rough estimate

FEMA estimates 88,000 NJ-NFIP buildings need elevation

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

THE FLOOD HAZARD MITIGATION/ELEVATION INDUSTRY IS DEDICATED TO REBUILDING NEW JERSEY SAFER AND STRONGER