Common Emergency Protective Measure 19

If a landslide or other slope instability is triggered by the incident and poses an immediate threat to life, public health and safety, or improved public or private property, emergency protective measures to stabilize the slope may be eligible.

• FEMA only provides Public Assistance funding for the least costly option necessary to alleviate the threat.
• FEMA limits eligible stabilization measures to the area of the immediate threat, not the entire slope

Eligible emergency protective measures include, but are not limited to:

• Temporary drainage measures
• Temporary ground protection to better stabilize the mass (rip rap, sheeting)
• Partial excavation at the head of a sliding mass to reduce its driving force
• Backfilling or buttressing at the toe of a sliding mass using measures such as gabions, rock toes, cribwalls, binwalls, and soldier pile walls
• Installation of barriers to redirect debris flow