How to find out if your property is affected by changes to federal flood risk maps [Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.]

Sep. 14—Flood risk is changing in portions of the Chattanooga area, and representatives from the federal and Tennessee state emergency management agencies are hosting a public open house to inform citizens of potential changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's flood insurance rate maps.

The open house is at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Development Resource Center from 5-8 p.m. Thursday.

The flood risk was updated for 725.9 miles of flooding sources by the recent Middle Tennessee — Chickamauga Watershed Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning project, for which updated high-resolution topographic data, engineering studies and environmental modeling were used to better identify and assess the area's flood risk, according to Kristen Martinenza, director of FEMA's Risk Analysis Branch for Region 4, which comprises Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

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