Floodplain program update: county passed FEMA audit; HUD rule may prompt higher local freeboard
Floodplain staff reported no reported structural flooding this quarter, successful Community Rating System recertification and elevation certificates, and highlighted a new HUD rule requiring 2-foot freeboard for federally backed single-family mortgages that could prompt a local change from an 18-inch requirement.
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Toby Lewis, floodplain program manager, told the Benton County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 7 that the county did not report any flooded dwellings or businesses during a recent wet period and that staff had completed several ongoing program tasks.
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