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Flood Resilience: A Basic Guide for Water and Wastewater Utilities

With a user-friendly layout, embedded videos, and flood maps to guide you, EPA's Flood Resilience Guide is your one-stop resource to know your flooding threat and identify practical mitigation options to protect your critical assets.

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Flood Resilience: A Basic Guide for Water and Wastewater Utilities (PDF)(47 pp, 3 MB)