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Standard Floodplain Risk Management (FRM) documents

 

The Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) has produced a range of standard documents to support the implementation of the NSW Government’s Flood Prone Land Policy through the development and implementation of FRM plans by local government through the FRM process as outlined in the Floodplain Development Manual (2005).  These standard documents include FRM guidelines and standard briefs and brief preparation guidelines as outlined below. 

These documents are live documents and will be updated from time to time:

FRM guidelines

• Floodway definition (PDF - 164KB)
• Temporary or relocatable flood barriers (PDF - 148KB)
• Rainwater tanks – limitations as floodplain risk management devices (PDF - 150KB)
• Drainage behind and through levees (PDF - 189KB)
• Flood emergency response planning classification of communities (PDF - 261KB)
• SES requirements from the floodplain risk management process (PDF - 862KB)
• Residential Flood Damage and supporting calculation spreadsheet (XLS - 2.0MB)
• Practical consideration of climate change (PDF - 369KB)
• Modelling reports and supporting information (including model files) for review (PDF - 164KB)

Briefs and associated documentation

• Generic flood study brief
• Guideline for the preparation of a consultant brief for a flood study