Now that the County has completed its emergency levee repair and Parkside is approved by Coastal, when can we expect to have all the needed flood protections completed?
The Countys emergency levee repairs are only the first step of a four-step process. Before flood protection is complete and homes and businesses become eligible for lower flood insurance premiums, Parkside Estates must (1) complete the FEMA certification process for the north leveee, (2) build a new levee to FEMA standards that ties the north levee to the mesa in order to provide tidal flood protection, (3) increase neighborhood storm drain capacity by building a large new storm drain, and (4) increase the pumping capacity of the Slater Pump Station. We cannot begin this work until all our approvals and permits are in place, which could be another year, if all goes well.
