Have any of you that do elevation certificates heard of a FEMA program for becoming a Certified Floodplain Surveyor? This not the CFM (Certified Floodplain Manager) program. I think it would be good because the public would then know they are hiring someone who knows what they are doing when it comes to EC. Also, the local CFM's would know who to recommend for work in their areas. Right now there is a pilot program in North Carolina.
I was just wondering what others thought. Myself I am a CFM but that does little to help with completing a EC. Perhaps, it will make things easier with FEMA by giving us someone to call with questions concerning EC.
The Flood Control District of Maricopa County,AZ holds training seminars every so often for Elevation Certificates but there is nothing formal like a "recognizable industry standard"...
It may have to do with "instant" LOMA's. If you apply and do them right, you can be approved to submit LOMA's that are issued within a matter of minutes - subject to random audits. I have one of my guys approved for that program.
It's an NSPS Program:
http://www.nsps.us.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=521
We have them here in NC. It makes the process for LOMAs and LOMARs quicker. From what Ive heard you can have one turned over in the matter of days.
> We have them here in NC. It makes the process for LOMAs and LOMARs quicker. From what Ive heard you can have one turned over in the matter of days.
It's been a pilot program in NC for years and was supposed to go nation-wide. For some reason it never has.
Probably got lost in the ACSM/NSPS meltdown.......
I know a surveyor who thinks a quad map elevation at a road intersection is good to go for floodplain work. He has lots of certainifications. Link to a BM, waste of time. Loop through 2 BM's?? Are you frinking nuts??
http://www.ncsurveyors.com/resources/printable_forms/
I found this on the NC Society of Surveyors website. I would not mind doing this certification here in California. Always up for continuing my education as a Land Surveyor.
Not a bad idea considering that FEMA used quad maps
to show their flood plain contours.
There is a CFM that works for an engineering company down the
road. They get sued all the time. I guess the attorneys in
the area think CFM means Center for Malpractice.
