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• Concerns over outdated flood maps prompt possible building moratorium in EBR Play Video

  September 21, 2017 10:25 AM

  BATON ROUGE - Amid concerns of outdated flood maps governing building codes in East Baton Rouge, Metro Councilman Buddy Amoroso is looking to place a moratorium on subdivisions and rezoning for developments with property larger than about an acre. Specifically, Amoroso seeks to temporarily ban developments with a property... more »

• USGS measuring water marks from catastrophic flooding Play Video

  August 29, 2016 5:29 PM

  DENHAM SPRINGS - The United States Geological Survey has a team of workers from all over the country going to areas that flooded in Louisiana to measure high water marks. The federal workers are zeroing in on areas in our community that took on high water. Nearly a dozen teams... more »

• Flood map revisions in Central approved by FEMA Play Video

  March 8, 2016 9:53 PM

  CENTRAL - A city-funded project to update and revise FEMA flood elevations along portions of the Beaver Bayou watershed in Central was approved. The project, which began about four years ago, was granted approval by FEMA last week. "We felt like some people were put into floodplains that... more »