New digital maps showing where flooding is most likely to occur in Polk County have been delayed until at least 2014. Planning for the new Polk County maps began in 2005, a year FEMA started a project to try to use advances in mapping technology to better identify areas susceptible to flooding. A series of policy shifts have followed at FEMA and other agencies. One of the shifts involves flood modeling and how levees would hold up.
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