Pacific Region RCSD Assessment Worksheet
Use this form to add or update a climate assessment to Piko (Worsheet Version June 2012)
Acronym
KOHA
Name/Title
Kauai Online Hazard Assessment Tool
Lead Agencies, Institutions and Organizations
NOAA/CSC and PSC, County of Kauai
Contacts(names, emails)
NOAA/CSC, http://csc.noaa.gov/contact/contactForm.htm
Partnering Agencies, Institutions, and Organizations
Assessment Type
Climate Science
Needs And Capabilities
Needs
Capacity
Capabilities
Risk and Vulnerability or Problem-focused
Area of Applicability
International and National
National and Regional
Regional/Local or Problem-focused
Focus Area
Fresh Water Resources and Drought
Coastal Inundation/Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Community Resilience
Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Region/Locale
Central North Pacific
State of Hawaii
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Remote Islands
Western North Pacific
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
Guam
Republic of Palau
Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI)
Other Western North Pacific
South Pacific
American Samoa
Australia
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Other South Pacific
Pacific Basin
Global
Focus Area
Completed
Ongoing
Planned
Proposed
Description
In partnership with the County of Kauai, the NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) and Pacific Services Center (PSC) created the Kauai Online Hazard Assessment Tool (KOHA) to support the County of Kauai's natural hazard related planning, permitting, and outreach activities. KOHA is an intranet based GIS tool for identifying the hazard risks for any user defined location on Kauai. Although designed to address all hazards, the initial focus of KOHA is coastal and riverine flooding. The County of Kauai is dedicated to mitigating the effects of all natural hazards. The county's Department of Public Works is responsible for reviewing building permits to minimize public and private losses from flooding. The Department utilizes the recently released Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs) published in September of 2005 by FEMA for determining if proposed building sites are within flood prone areas. Subsequently, the Division of Engineering within the Department is responsible for reviewing building permits and requires property owners to build structures in accordance with the County of Kauai Floodplain Management Ordinance (No. 630/696). The current version of KOHA is availabe from any desktop computer at the County of Kauai with an internet browser. By going to the KOHA web page county staff can rapidly and accurately identify the FEMA designated flood zone(s) for any parcel or proposed building site within the county. KOHA will also determine if the parcel or proposed building site intersects the Special Management Area (SMA) and the Tsunami Evacuation Zone. Once these three flood hazard risks have been determined, KOHA generates a report containing the specific risk information along with a detailed map including a satellite image of the area. The information provided by KOHA is not meant to replace or be used without expert interpretation. Rather, KOHA is intended to save time by improving access to and retrieval of hazard related information that is needed to support decision making.
Url
http://csc.noaa.gov/contact/contactForm.htm
Keywords
Central North Pacific State of Hawaii Risk and Vulnerability or Problem-focused Regional/Local or Problem-focused Coastal Inundation/Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Community Resilience Completed Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
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