“I would say the FEMA maps are grossly outdated,” said Jonathan DeLaBruere, the town administrator. Cambridge’s map isn’t even fully digitized, so he has a scan pulled up on his computer and pointed to the date in the corner: 1983. The high-risk floodplain is marked in gray and w...
FEMA has taken steps to enforce the “no-take” standard as part of floodplain map revisions but has done relatively little to integrate it into the minimum development standards enforced by NFIP-participating jurisdictions.
which maps flood risk, lacks the budget and other resources to map every square inch of the country, and instead concentrates on the most vulnerable areas.