Name:	Bullitt -	Reply
Subject:	FEMA's FLOOD PLANE
Date:	7/22/2014 4:52:32 PM

Is there a group out there challenging...

1. FEMA's 722' flood level?

2. FEMA's interpretation of when a home is in the flood plane?

28 years of living in the same home and never needed flood insurance until being advised to re-finance (cash out) our home and the mortgage company now requires flood insurance ($2,200.00 per year). After hiring a surveyor for a new elevation certificate only to find FEMA has changed their interpretaion of what portion of your property is in the flood plane directly affects your insurance requirements. If the requirement by the FEDS to carrry insurance that I will never need isn't enough, what do you think property values are going to do when your home is classified as being in the flood plane of Lake Travis.

Anybody out there fighting this?

Name:	The Knight -	Reply
Subject:	FEMA's FLOOD PLANE
Date:	7/28/2014 12:08:20 PM

While I don't yet live in the Austin/Lake Travis area, it is my plan to move there in the near future. Your question raises some concerns as to what area I choose.

I know this will not help, but I did find some information on the change.

There was a study done by the University of Texas at Austin-Department of Geography, by Justin Kockritz and Ryan Reynolds.

Lake Travis, Changing the 100 year Floodplain.

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/hudson/grg360g/EGIS/final_project/spring04_projects/web_justin_reynolds/Lake%20Travis.htm

Thank you and good luck

Name:	DavidG -	Reply
Subject:	FEMA's FLOOD PLANE
Date:	10/1/2014 10:43:10 AM

Look at this site to see why the flood plain is important:

http://www.lcra.org/water/floods/Documents/Major-Floods-on-the-Colorado-River.pdf

I attended the hearings when the Corp of Engineers presented the new flood plain for discussion. The Corp took the rain event which washed out the dam on the Comal River and put it in the Lake Travis Basin to arrive at 722 ft.