An email from Ann Waters of MC Planning Baord:

Joe,

I checked with my husband who works for Insurance Services Office, an insurance
rating organization and supplier of information to insurance companies,
regarding flood mapping.  They do use a private flood mapping company for some
of their needs, as well as FEMA's information.  Here's the link to FEMA's map
service for flood maps

http://msc.fema.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/FemaWelcomeView?storeId=10001&cata
logId=10001&langId=-1

You can search by State, County and Municipality for flood maps.  It will bring
up an interactive viewer (much like DEP's I-Map) which allows you to view the
mapping of the area; you can print from the viewer or you can create a FIRMette
(Flood insurance rate map) online for free.  They do have a price list depending
on what you want. A map panel, paper or digitized on CD is only $3 - online
downloads $2.50.  Hopefully that can be useful for anyone who needs the
information. 



Ann R. Waters

Senior Planner - Environmental

Monmouth County Planning Board

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