The Federal Emergency Management Agency is redrawing flood zone maps for the District of Columbia, adding a flood zone that would include Federal Triangle, much of the Mall, and a large portion of Southwest Washington.
Property owners in the new flood zone could face stricter building codes, and could be required to obtain flood insurance.
Plans for the new flood maps, which guide flood coverage for properties in the zones, were unveiled earlier this month at a meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission.
More re-mapped cities could be on the horizon for FEMA. The agency is revising flood maps in all cities that cannot prove local levees will work in a flood. The maps are redrawn as if the levees didn’t exist.
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