National Levee Safety Guidelines - Purpose and Scope Overview

The goal of the National Levee Safety Guidelines is to serve as a national resource of voluntary, best practices to help achieve nationwide consistency in improving the reliability of levees and resiliency of communities behind levees throughout the United States. The guidelines will be developed with stakeholder input and are intended to be used by a broad audience from multiple disciplines and sectors. The intent of the guidelines is for:
- Levee owner/operators to have a common resource of practices,
- Local officials and communities to have a common resource for best practices in floodplain management, hazard mitigation planning and emergency management,
- The private sector to have an available reference document; and,
- Federal, state, regional, and tribal organizations to use in association with their levee safety programs.