New flood maps for Mobile, Baldwin counties delayed until at least 2012 | Breaking News from the Press-Register - al.com

New flood maps for Mobile, Baldwin counties delayed until at least 2012 | Breaking News from the Press-Register - al.com: "WASHINGTON -- Once expected this year, updated coastal flood maps for Mobile and Baldwin counties are now supposed to be complete by 2012, according to a state manager who acknowledged that date also could slip.

Storm surge modeling for the $1.2 million project remains incomplete and 'there could be unforeseen circumstances,' Leslie Durham, who oversees floodplain management at the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, said last week in e-mailed replies to questions from the Press-Register."