Marshfield LOMR Public Meeting On 2016 Flood Maps Postponed; TV call in show now scheduled
The Massachusetts Coastal Coalition (MCC), in partnership with the Town of Marshfield, was to host a public meeting regarding flood map change on Thursday, March 19th, 2020 at Furnace Brook Middle School Auditorium.
Due to health concerns with large public meetings, the public meeting has been postponed to a date to be arranged.
Instead, the panel of experts will be broadcast live on MCTV at 7:00 PM the evening of March 19, 2020 with a call in session for questions. MCTV will broadcast the sessions live on Comcast 15/Verizon 35 and on the MCTV streaming channel found on www.marshfieldtv.org. MCTV will also re-air the sessions, place them on the MCTV Video on Demand Platform and the Vimeo Government Archive.
The call in number for MCTV is 781-837-3462. Questions can be sent in ahead of time to either info@marshfieldtv.org or to the MCC flood insurance service center by filling out our question form HERE
Additional Information
The MCC Website, where there is a searchable database of properties and the projected flood zone and elevation changes: https://knowflood.org/updates/new-maps
The Town website, with a digital map overlay of the current FIRMs and the proposed FIRMs https://marshfieldma.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=84a8f4cd0b2441b2a0352b152c3d922d%0d
The MCC has four pieces of map change guidance, all dependent on the change to your property. SFHA means Special Flood Hazard Area, which is any A or V flood zone.
–Moving from in the SFHA to out of the SHFA
–Moving from out of the SFHA to into the SFHA
–Moving from one flood zone to another
–Change in base flood elevation
Additionally, there is more information and data on what the LOMR means for the Town on our map change page.
