FEMA Meeting on new Floodplain Maps

[Gwendolyn Hallsmith]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will hold four public meetings as part of the process to adopt new Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps and Flood Insurance Studies prepared by FEMA and its mapping contractors for communities in Rutland and Washington Counties.

The purpose of the meetings will be to review the new maps and discuss the process for their adoption.  We have copies of the proposed maps here in the Planning Department, and copies will be made available at the meeting.  They will review changes in floodplain mapping and describe what we need to do as a community to ensure continued participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.

The Washington County meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 25 at 1:00 pm and 7:00 pm at the Waterbury State Office Complex in Waterbury, VT.  It will be in the Skylight Conference Room, located on the first floor of the North Connector Building of the Agency of Human Services.

If you have questions about this meeting, please contact David Mendelsohn, FEMA Region 1 at 617-832-4713.  For further information about the floodplain map modernization activities in Vermont, please contact Gretchen Alexander, VT DEC Map Modernization Coordinator at 802-241-4596.  For information about the National Flood Insurance Program in Vermont, please contact Barry Cahoun, at DEC, 802-241-3759.

Thanks, Gwen.

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Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Director
Department of Planning and Community Development
City Hall
39 Main Street
Montpelier, VT  05602
ghall...@montpelier-vt.org