The Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing money to help some areas of Mississippi update their flood maps and develop information on flooding risks.
The Vicksburg Post reports that the activities dovetail onto work completed since 2002 to update flood maps in Mississippi.
In 2011, technical adjustments to Warren County’s maps took areas less prone to hundred-year floods out of special flood hazard areas.
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