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Camp Mystic appealed to remove buildings from FEMA’s 100-year flood map, records show

Camp Mystic appealed to remove buildings from FEMA’s 100-year flood map, records show

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found. The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls’ summer camp in a “Special Flood …

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