FEMA Releases Preliminary Flood
Insurance Rate Maps for Middlesex and Monmouth Counties. Release Date Feb 03,
2014.
The
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) along with Middlesex
and Monmouth Counties are cooperating in efforts to combat flooding, the
reduction of lives lost, decrease in the loss of property and dealing with the
economic impression of flooding is detrimental to the people of both counties. FEMA
has expressed great concern as today the issuance of the Preliminary Flood
Insurance Rate Maps or (FIRMS) provides in depth modifications to the
continuing evaluation of vulnerabilities of floods. The initial FIRMS will personify
coastal flood threats as the Preliminary Work Maps would now be apprised to
consist riverine flooding. The issuance of the Preliminary FIRMS is the first
factor in the approved regulatory review initiative. The following step would
illustrate a mandatory 90-day appeal and comment cycle, this will commence
during the Spring of this year. Owners of property along with groups that are
interested in such matters will have the chance to petition the Preliminary
FIRMS by proposing the necessary procedural documentation to their provincial
Floodplain Administrators. With reference to the period of petition once it has
ended, FEMA will then release a Letter of Final Determination or LFD to the
Middlesex and Monmouth County communities. Operational standards will occur in 2015;
apparently these contemporary FIRMS will establish flood insurance rates. However
the benefits would extend to increased levels for construction of buildings and
the reduction of insurance costs.
Onika Mayhew (Graduate Assistant)
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