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Supervisors flag FEMA mapping update and warn against shifting floodplain-administration duties to county without resources
Summary
Washington County supervisors reviewed FEMA's updated flood insurance mapping and warned the draft local law may assign duties — permits, hydraulic studies and a floodplain administrator — that the county lacks staff and engineering capacity to perform; they asked for legal review and a uniform town-level approach before the April 22 submission deadline.
Washington County supervisors spent a lengthy portion of the March 3 meeting discussing FEMA's updated flood insurance maps and a draft local law that could expand local floodplain-administration responsibilities.
Staff summarized the federal mapping update and observed language in the packet suggesting Washington County code enforcement would perform floodplain management tasks (including permitting for culverts, berms and activities that change…
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