The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region V Office is encouraging staff and officials of villages, cities, townships, and county government, regional organizations, non-governmental bodies, neighborhood associations and harbor and shoreline protection engineers to attend a meeting Tuesday, Aug. 29. At the gathering, FEMA will showcase the new draft hazard work maps for the Lake Michigan shoreline in Allegan County .
The meeting is from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Herrick District Library, 300 River Street, in Holland; it is intended to solicit comments from community officials and embodies a process FEMA refers to as Flood Risk Review.
Areas include Laketown, Saugatuck, Ganges and Casco Townships, and the cities/villages of Saugatuck, Douglas, Glen and South Haven.
An access work map viewer is at https://goo.gl/aiZpu2
The link to map viewer user document is at https://goo.gl/QuDFhe
Officials can RSVP by contacting Brett Holthaus at brett.holthaus@starr-team.com or calling 240-264-8028.