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On Thursday, May 8, the residents and business community of Wilkes
County will have the opportunity to review and ask questions about
preliminary copies of newly updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps
(FIRMs) for the county.Wilkes County is completely contained within
the Yadkin River Basin.The maps will be on display beginning at
5:00 p.m. A presentation on the material will begin at 5:30 p.m.
in the Wilkes County Commissioners' Room, Room 100 of the Wilkes
County Offices, located at 110 North Street in Wilkesboro.
Digital versions of the Wilkes County preliminary maps are currently
available for public review by contacting your local planning
department or searching the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping
website at www.ncfloodmaps.com.Wilkes County residents who visit
the site will find an 'address locator tool' to help them locate
individual properties and see their relationship to mapped flood
prone areas.Other tools are available to assist them with viewing
and downloading digital data from the website.
The May 8 public meeting provides an opportunity for Wilkes County
residents to see the results of the advanced digital technology
used to create the new flood maps.County and municipal officials
will be on hand to help residents locate particular properties
on the maps and determine their level of flood risk.Representatives
from the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program will make a
short presentation on the map production process, features of
the new maps, how the new maps can be used to reduce future losses
due to flooding, and how the new maps relate to flood insurance
and floodplain management.Attendees may also see a demonstration
of the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Information System.Following
the presentation, state and Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) representatives will be available to answer questions about
the mapping process, flood insurance coverage, and floodplain
management topics.
Wilkes County's new Flood Insurance Rate Maps were produced by
the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety under a
unique partnership with FEMA.The partnership agreement, signed
in September 2000, assigns to the department the primary responsibility
for creating and maintaining all Flood Insurance Rate Maps for
North Carolina.The effort to remap the state's floodplains was
spurred by the devastation caused by Hurricane Floyd, which flooded
large areas of eastern North Carolina and left thousands of people
homeless.This disaster highlighted North Carolina's vulnerability
to natural disasters and the need for accurate, up-to-date floodplain
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