Starting Jan. 25, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) begins its official 90-day technical appeal process for residents, municipalities and businesses to submit comments and appeals regarding preliminary floodplain maps. Appeals and comments from residents will be accepted by FEMA until A...

The period where cities, developers and residents are able to appeal and comment on proposed new flood plain maps has been pushed back to 2018. According to a city of Dripping Springs press release, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA will begin its 90-day appeal period for its new flood m...

Giving Hays County residents a chance to gain insight into new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) was the goal during the course of three open house meetings held last week. The events were a direct response to an effort by individual counties to provide critical flood plain mapping information ...

By Samantha Smith Questions were raised at the last Buda city council meeting as city officials received a presentation on FEMA’s re-mapping of the 100-year flood plain.  But preliminary maps, which have not been approved by council, show potential trouble for many existing and future Buda structure...