Bill would ease flood insurance restrictions | Aquafornia

Posted by: Maven on February 22, 2012 at 9:06 am

From the Capital Press:

?A bill in Congress would make it easier for farmers protected by weakened levees to insure building upgrades on their land.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is working through a remapping of floodplains and has downgraded many of the levees that protect agricultural land in California, finding they are no longer adequate to guard against 100-year floods.

As a result, farmers in many places have had difficulties putting in new or upgraded structures to maintain or increase production. Among those is Charley Mathews, a Marysville rice grower who said he was required to put flood vents in a new concrete grain storage structure. ? ?

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