Water Resources Research Act Program

Details for Project ID CA_2025-RIVERA

Mitigating Flood Risk in California’s Unincorporated Communities

Institute: California
Year Established: 2024 Start Date: 2024-09-01 End Date: 2025-08-31
Total Federal Funds: $12,765 Total Non-Federal Funds: $12,766

Principal Investigators: Danielle Rivera

Project Summary: Project identifies three of the highest risk unincorporated communities to ground this initial work. Our aim is twofold: (1) to identify the policy barriers facing rural flood mitigation and (2) to develop a policy and planning toolkit to support stronger rural flood mitigation planning.