New Flood Zones Worry County

SNOW HILL -- New Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) have the Worcester County Commissioners worried due to the unanticipated alterations of floodplains in sections of the county.

“They are kind of not what we expected,” said Development Review and Permitting Director Ed Tudor of the preliminary FIRMs.

For years the impression that Tudor said he has received from agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) is that floodplains were expanding and more areas would likely require flood insurance. But the new maps do not reflect that thinking in Worcester.
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