The FEMA National Flood Insurance Program on Friday published on the Web newly revised preliminary flood insurace rate maps for New Orleans and St. Bernard, Jefferson, Plaquemines and St. Charles parishes, in advance of an official appeal and public comment period that will begin later this spring. FEMA officials met with local government officials from the five parishes in August 2012 to review the maps and the analysis on which they were based.
FEMA released an updated set of preliminary maps and provided an interactive mapping portal on the web to allow individuals and public officials to review the differences between the new maps and the maps now used to set insurance rates.
To view the new flood maps, contact your local floodplain administrator or follow these links: New Orleans, St. Bernard, Jefferson, Plaquemines, and St. Charles.
Most New Orleans area communities have been using advisory base flood elevation levels adopted a year or two after Hurricane Katrina.
The new maps take into account the risk reduction provided by post-Katrina improvements in the hurricane levee system, which is designed to protect against surges created by a hurricane with a 1 percent chance of occurring, also known as the 100-year storm. The maps also have been adjusted to take into account changes in land elevation and a new understanding of rainfall events that have a 1 percent chance of occurring in any year.
St. Bernard Parish already has set a public meeting between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Feb. 28 in the Council Chambers, 8201 W. Judge Perez Dr., in Chalmette, to allow residents to review the maps. FEMA officials also will be available to answer questions.
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After a 90-day appeals and comment period, FEMA is expected to send local officials a "letter of final determination" that will start a six-month adoption period. During that time, local governments must officially adopt the new maps or out out of the National Flood Insurance Program, which would make property owners ineligible for the insurance.?
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Source: http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/01/fema_posts_new_preliminary_flo.html
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