Home Repairs After Flood Damage
After flood damage to structures, it is both good practice and a requirement to replace flood damaged materials with flood-resistant materials. Replaced utilities must be elevated. Replaced materials must be safe from flood damage.
Handling Hazardous Waste at Businesses
After a business is impacted by a flood event, damaged recyclables, food waste, and other solid waste can be thrown away in the trash. However, all hazardous materials need to be handled as hazardous waste. To protect public health and the environment, it is critical that businesses and their contractors, cleanup crews, and volunteers separate hazardous materials from trash and ensure their hazardous waste is transported to an appropriate destination.