Subject: FW: Follow-Up: FEMA Discovery Project for Gauley & Lower New Watersheds
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Kurt Donaldson, GISP, CFM
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West Virginia University
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Subject: Follow-Up: FEMA Discovery Project for Gauley & Lower New Watersheds

Good Afternoon,

Thank you to everyone who joined us this week for FEMA's Discovery meetings for the Gauley and Lower New Watersheds.  We hope you found the meeting to be an engaging opportunity for you to provide your valuable input on flooding hazards in your local community. Discovery is the first step of updating your county's flood maps. It is an important opportunity for community officials to let us know if the current flood maps accurately depict the flooding that occurs in their area. It is also an opportunity to let us know what other areas are regularly impacted by flooding. This information helps FEMA with our decision-making so that when funding becomes available we have a better understanding of your community/ county for when we update the flood maps.

If you were unable to attend and/or if you have additional comments, please see the below for different options for how you can provide your input to the study team. We kindly request that all additional comments be provided by Friday, August 25th.

  1.  Reach out to FEMA Project Officer Andrew Jackson via email [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> or FEMA Lead Project Officer, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>, to request an individual meeting to discuss your flooding concerns.

  1.  As an alternative, you can include your comments when you complete the attached Discovery Questionnaire and e-mail it back to me at [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

The Discovery Dashboards that we highlighted during the presentation are attached.

Finally, please feel free to forward this request to other appropriate municipal staff who may be able to provide additional input. The recommended audience includes floodplain administrators, emergency managers, planners, public works officials, GIS staff, community development officials, building officials, parks and recreation staff, and transportation staff. We hope to gather as much input from the local officials. If you have any studies or data related to flooding in your community, please feel free to share that with us so that it can be incorporated into future flood map updates.

Thank you for your participation in this effort, and please keep an eye out for additional communication from myself and the study team in the months to come.

Crystal Joy Smith
Mobile: 917-435-2319
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

ARC | Zone 1 PTS
ADVANCING RESILIENCE in COMMUNITIES
A FEMA Production and Technical Services (PTS) Contractor

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