Flood Protection
Protect Your Property from Flooding
Retrofit your home or business to help protect from flooding.
- Mark your fuse or breaker box to show the circuits in floodable areas. Turning off the power to those areas can reduce property damage and save lives.
- Check your house for water entry points.
- Install a floor drain plug, standpipe, overhead sewer, or sewer backup valve to prevent sewer backup flooding.
- Consider elevating your home above flood levels, wet or dry floodproofing, or installing barriers.
How can I retrofit my home for flood protection? There are six different ways:
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Elevation means raising your home so that the lowest floor is above the flood level. This is the most common way to avoid flood damage.
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Wet floodproofing makes uninhabited parts of your home resistant to flood damage when water is allowed to enter during flooding.
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Relocation means moving your home to higher ground where the exposure to flooding is eliminated altogether.
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Dry floodproofing seals your home to prevent flood waters from entering.
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Levee and floodwall protection means constructing barriers to prevent flood waters from entering your home.
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Demolition means razing your home. Homeowners can rebuild to flood-safety standards on the same property or buy a house elsewhere.
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All development in Terrebonne Parish, including floodplain development, requires a permit. Call the TPCG Permit Office at (985) 873-6567 for more information.
More information can be found in the
Terrebonne Parish Permit Office, the Terrebonne Parish Library, or at FloodSmart.gov.