Storm Preparedness
How to Prepare for a Storm
It’s never too early to prepare for a storm. Here are some tips that you can take to prepare your home or business for the next storm event:
- Consider getting flood insurance for your property. Find your property’s flood map by entering your address in the FEMA Flood Map Service Center.
- Sign up for emergency alerts in San Mateo County with SMC Alert.
- Make sandbags for your property. A free sandbag station is located at 600 California Drive.
- For property owners with natural creek beds on their property, clear the creek beds of debris.
- Prepare a family emergency plan and emergency kit for your home and car with supplies. Visit www.ready.gov/make-a-plan for more information.
- Examine your house for cracks in the foundation, exterior walls, and small openings around pipes and seal them.
- Clean rain gutters, dry wells, French drains, and stormwater inlet junction boxes so that they are free of debris.
- Capture rainwater by installing a rain barrel. Save $200 off a barrel with this rebate.
- Adopt a storm drain near your home or business by pledging to keep it clean of litter and debris.
City’s Efforts to Minimize Flooding
The City has been working to minimize flooding in Burlingame with the construction of storm drain improvement projects outlined in the $39 million Capital Improvement Program that was created with the resident-approved storm drain fee in May 2009.
- Burlingame Storm Water Pump Stations
- How to fill and layer sandbags
- Map of Burlingame’s Creeks
- Map of Burlingame's Watersheds
- Notice for Property Owners and Tenants with a Creek
- FEMA Flood Maps
- FEMA Brochures
- Flood Insurance FAQs
Contact Us
Call the Public Works Department for emergency flooding, blocked storm drains, or creek concerns at 650-558-7670.