Federal funding directed for Mobile, Baldwin flood maps

Mobile and Baldwin counties are among seven Alabama counties in line to benefit from some $5.8 million in federal money for flood map modernization, according to news releases from U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, and U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa.

The grant will come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and be routed through the state’s floodplain mapping program, based at the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, or ADECA, the releases state.

The amount represents a decrease from last year, when the state received $6.9 million, ADECA spokesman Jim Plott said Thursday. He did not know why the state is getting less this year or how the work will be broken out among the seven counties.

Federal funding directed for Mobile, Baldwin flood maps