County officials hear about levee, Fresno, floodplain mapping

Hill County officials discussed an update on the levee system and announced a new Montana State University Extension Service central region department head during their monthly meeting Thursday.

Hill County Planner Amy Ferguson said she and the county commissioners attended a meeting at the beginning of the month hosted by the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation about flood plain mapping.

“We are in the process of redoing the floodplain maps since the ones in my office are old, from the ’80s,” she said. “Unfortunately, though, this is quite the process to get flood plain maps upda...