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REGION V DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT FEDERAL INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION 1 NORTH DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60602 June 1, 1979 Mr. Raymond Hanson, Mayor Attn: Joseph Chlebeck, City Clerk City Hall 515 Little Canada Rd. Little Canada, Minnesota 55117 IN REPLY REFER TD: 52 :LB* Dear Mr. Hanson: The Federal Insurance & Hazard Mitigation Office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will .,,2e conducting a Flood Insurance Study for your community. This study, funded by FENA, will be an engineering analysis of floodplain areas using hydraulic and hydrologic methods to determine the extent of flood hazard. in this regard, a Time and Cost Meeting will be held for Little Canada, Minnesota, on June 20, 1979, at 1:30 p.m., in the Mounds View City Hall, 2401 Hwy. #10, Mounds View, MN., to establish the parameters of the study effort, During the meeting specific questions will be raised concerning the nature and extent of your community's flood problems, the location of developed and developing areas within your jurisdiction, and the availability of certain types of engineering data such as bench marks, and sewer studies, building permits, water and sewer expansions, and recent subdivision plats, it is, therefore, quite important that officials who are knowledgeable about these topics be present at the meeting. Upon completion, the Flood Insurance Study will be used to identify your community's flood prone areas. These areas will be regulated by a flood plain ordinance adopted and enforced by your community, Thus, it is necessary for us to have as much detailed information as possible on flooding and development trends in your community. To assist us in making this study effort successful, we would appreciate being supplied at the meeting with three (3) copies of a current community base map and any other available topographic mapping which we can use to delineate study areas, .. 011