file photo by Boyd Loving
FEMA addresses flood maps in post-Sandy meeting with Bergen County towns
Tuesday April 30, 2013, 7:52 PM
BY KAREN SUDOL
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Six months after superstorm Sandy walloped the state, Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives met with local officials in Bergen County on Tuesday to address questions about home elevation requirements and flood-plain maps.
Officials from 23 Bergen County towns were invited to the two-hour event held at the county administration building in Hackensack. The county-sponsored meeting was the third in a series with FEMA and that are designed to connect towns with the resources needed to recover, said Peter Incardone, deputy chief of staff for the Office of the County Executive.
“We here at the county are mindful of the fact that the circumstances that came to us as a result of Hurricane Sandy didn’t end a day, a week or a month after Sandy,” said Ed Trawinski, the county administrator.
One area of concern was FEMA’s flood maps. When the storm struck, FEMA was already working on revised flood plain maps but issued “advisory” maps for the coastal areas in December to guide rebuilding. The state subsequently adopted those maps that established a higher and significantly expanded flood plain and are used by insurance companies to set premiums as well as govern rebuilding.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/FEMA_addresses_flood_maps_in_meeting_with_Bergen_County_towns.html
My house on a hill is now in a flood plain. Money for the insurance companies. Never a drop of water. And if I ever get water in my basement my poor neighbors had better have an ark.
and yet they would like to build a new fleet building in a flood zone.
yea not to smart.