February 08, 2011
By: Carrie Van Brunt
A group of Minnesota residents are tired of paying for flood insurance and are calling on their city council to alleviate their financial plight.
According to the Winona Post, resident Roger Pampuch and 65 others are asking city council members to get in touch with FEMA so they can re-evaluate the area's floodplain maps. Pampauch says a bridge and dike were built near his home in the 1980s and were supposed to remove his neighborhood from the floodplain map. More than 25 years later, however, FEMA still considers the area to be a flood zone.
Notes obtained by the Winona Post from the city council indicate they don't think the changes made will satisfy the standards needed for FEMA to take Pampauch's neighborhood off the floodplain, but with recent construction that's taken place, FEMA may reconsider once the new information is submitted.
Though Pampauch wants his community removed from the floodplain, he may be able to save money on his homeowners insurance plan if Minnesota is participating in FEMA's National Flood Insurance Plan. Under the program, local communities are eligible for federally-funded assistance.
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