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One by one governmental leaders signed to receive their copies of FEMA’s new flood maps. “The final product of all the study that has been going on over the past two years,” Planning Director Michele Coats said.
GAUTIER — The final flood plain maps are complete and closely resemble the standards Jackson County residents have been using since shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency officials said Friday.
So what can property owners do if they are included in the flood zone of the new maps which will likely go into effect in early 2009? At this point in time, property owners should get in touch with their local government and find out first if they are included.
A system of flood gates and pumps built since Hurricane Katrina to help alleviate flooding in several New Orleans neighborhoods may not be as much help as authorities first said. The Army Corps of Engineers released flood risk maps on a block-by-block basis on June 20, but didn’t include some technical data, preventing independent assessments of the accuracy of the maps. The maps showed that the …
Army Corps of Engineers maps rolled out this summer that showed levee and pump work had made many neighborhoods much safer were in fact flawed and the risk from flooding is actually much higher than first presented to the public, a top scientist acknowledged Friday.