A new flood map for Lafayette Parish could be completed by next year, the first update since 1996 for a document that affects insurance rates and the required elevation of new construction in flood zones.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has delivered the revised flood map to city-parish officials, and a tentative timeline calls for the map to be formally adopted by June 2012, City-Parish Public Works engineer Mark Lavergne told The Advocate.
In established residential areas, there are no major changes, but some flood zones will shift — moving property out of a flood zone classification in some areas and into a flood zone classification in others, Lavergne said.
Information from: The Advocate
Topics Flood
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