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Speaker 1: These are the updated floodplane maps.

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Speaker 2: Kurt Bellavance is showing me the new flood maps published

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Speaker 2: by FEMA. As the director of Community Developments and Planning,

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Speaker 2: it's been his job to break down what this means

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Speaker 2: for residents who are now considered to be in a floodplane.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, for this one particular area, it was highly impacted

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Speaker 1: and the residents were upset, So we had to dig

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Speaker 1: deeper into that to figure out what can we do.

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Speaker 1: So we've reached out to FEMA, We've reached out to

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Speaker 1: the state. The state's been very helpful.

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Speaker 2: The city is working with FEMA to set up a

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Speaker 2: workshop that will better inform residents about their flood risk

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Speaker 2: and flood insurance requirements, many who never needed it before.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, they're concerned, as anybody would be when you get

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Speaker 1: a notice from your mortgage company. It made people nervous

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Speaker 1: about

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Speaker 2: That and Peabody James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio