Southern Utah flood hazard maps prove defective
Owners of homes throughout Utah are invited to buy flood insurance after devastating the result of flash floods in Washington County in the last month.
“The conditions of prime contractor for the spring floods throughout the state of Utah,” said Derek Jensen, a spokesman for the department of public safety. “This is our main concern at this time. With a wet fall and soil sättigender Normale Superieure snowpacks in our mountains, flooding is a real possibility.”
Owners are required by law, the purchase of flood insurance if their property is located within a flood risk ausgewiesenen card. Mortgage insurance companies may also, the specific case of the property is located nearby, but not within a certain risk of flooding the territory.
But the cards are Aging - and could be a false sense of security, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its Flood Hazard Mapping programme.
Indeed, 79 percent of Utah’s Flood Insurance Rate maps (so-called business) are more than 10 years, according to FEMA and its spring session 2003 Utah State profile. Most of Saint-Georges have been undertaken by the Federal Centre for the year 1987, according to the website of FEMA.
“The result of ageing is that the cards may not accurately reflect the risk of flooding, which can create a false sense of security and position of buildings, infrastructure and people in danger,” said the report.
Risks of flooding are dynamic and can change rapidly due to the municipal development and the natural processes in water vagina. Up-to-date flood maps are crucial for the vast flood plain. ”
FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program Manager for Utah, Barb Fitzpatrick. She admits that the Federal Centre has a difficult period that their time cards reviewed within the framework of Congress allocated.
“The goal is to update every five years,” Fitzpatrick said during a telephone interview from his office in Denver. “This is not the case. One problem lies in the fact that there is not enough money. We also have a new mapping process and it is once again take some time for all the USA is what the Congress we do.
Of the 162 homeowners in Washington County, bought flood insurance, only two were generally marked by the recent floods.
“A lot of houses, fell into the river were built outside the flood plain. Some were close to that, legally, but man built, where she had understood,” said Fitzpatrick. “People must recognize that deposits, river and forced to go elsewhere. Everything has changed. ”
Plain flooded, maps flood road or way of predicting the flooding on the basis of measuring techniques and experience of the past, and the flooding of the margin, where water probably moves on basic surveying and development outside the flood.
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