16. That’s when the city’s new 100-year floodplain map that has been in the works since 2008 will officially take effect, city officials announced Tuesday. The new Federal Emergency Management ...

A: The term “100-year flood” is often used as an attempt to simplify the definition of a flood that statistically has a 1-percent chance of occurring in any given year. Likewise, the term ...

GRAFTON, N.D. – The Grafton Flood Risk Reduction Project, a project to divert the Park River and stop overland flooding, has officially removed Grafton from the 100-year floodplain. On Jan.

Washoe County officials held a meeting Wednesday to go over the Swan Lake floodplain, which it recently remapped.In the new ...

But most of them have sections of their property that are in the 100-year floodplain map, and they would be subject to the 2-foot rule for new construction and rebuilt homes. There are 85 ...

officials in Montevideo are hoping to complete the certification of the city’s levee so that the new maps can show the area that the improved levee protects from a 100-year flood event.