Regional Teams

Record rains in June 2008 brought significant flooding to some Midwest River Basins. The States of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Wisconsin were affected. The Regional Interagency Levee Task Force (ILTF) was formally established to address the flood recovery effort for the June 2008 floods. Later, in the spring of 2009, the States of North Dakota and Minnesota also experienced major flooding along the Red River and many of its tributaries.

As a result of these recent flood events, as well as previous Midwest floods, most notably in 1993 and 1995, it became clear that there was a need to continue the successes of the Regional ILTF and consider establishing a long-term, system-wide, flood risk management partnership. This partnership would be dedicated to implementing a broader flood risk management approach for the states of the Upper Midwest region and the nation and be determined to manage and reduce flood consequences.

Regional Flood Risk Management Teams (RFRMT) will integrate pre-flood mitigation with a long-term strategy to plan and implement pre- and post-flood emergency actions, while developing promising nonstructural alternatives and other flood risk mitigation actions recognized to reduce future flood risk within the region.

Regional Flood Risk Management Team for States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri

The first Regional Flood Risk Management Team (RFRMT) was established in 2009 to enable the Federal, tribal, state and local governmental partners within the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri to coordinate and collaborate on flood risk management initiatives for the region. The proposed RFRMT framework will ensure that important dialog continues beyond the immediate aftermath of a disaster event and will fill the void where Federal and state actions are coordinated and financed as they relate to infrastructure, flood protection and hazard mitigation issues in the 2-10 year timeframe after an event.

• RFRMT Organizational Charter (pdf, 40 KB)
• Meeting Minutes - First Quarter - 1 Sep 09 (pdf, 28 KB)

Revised 27 June 2011