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Waynesville staff: state FEMA floodplain remapping under way; town will await preliminary maps
Summary
Town staff told the Waynesville Town Council on Jan. 28 that state and FEMA floodplain remapping for Haywood County — including the Hazel/Hazelwood area — is already in progress and preliminary maps are expected by the end of 2025; staff recommended the town not duplicate the state’s work with its own contract.
At the Town of Waynesville’s Jan. 28 meeting, town staff updated the council on efforts to revise FEMA floodplain maps for the Hazel/Hazelwood area and wider Haywood County.
Elizabeth (staff) said the state’s floodplain mapping program is already conducting studies in Haywood County as part of a French Broad River Basin update. She quoted the state national floodplain insurance coordinator as saying the program is in the “second round of engineering modeling for the…
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