Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 2000 — Page 4
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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
FRIDAY, MARCH 17,2000
FEMA: Rebuilt dike won’t protect Princeville from another Floyd
By ESTES THOMPSON Associated Press Writer RALEIGH, N.C. <AP) — Although Princeville residents plan to rebuild the tiny historic town that was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Floyd, emergency management officials said Monday they might be better off accepting government buyouts and moving away. The town has decided to repair its Tar River dike. But that will not protect Princeville from another hurricane like Floyd, said John Copenhaver, regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “If you have the same event this year, it will have the same result,” Copenhaver said at a briefing on flood recovery efforts six months later. “We’ve found it is much easier to move people out of harm’s way than to move harm out of people’s way.” In September, Hurricane
Floyd dumped 20 inches of rain across eastern North Carolina. It nearly destroyed Princeville, wiping out 8S0 homes in the town of 2,100 people. Many residents still haven’t returned, and the town government continues to operate from trailers across the Tar River in Tarboro. Town officials decided in December to ask the Army Corps of Engineers to repair the dike. That made the town ineligible for buyouts because the dike gives protection from what is known as a 300-year flood. Floyd, however, produced flooding categorized as a 500year flood. Princeville, considered the oldest U.S. town chartered by blacks, was established as Freedom Hill at the end of the Civil War by former slaves who settled alongside the Tar River under the protection of Union troops.
Last month, President Clinton created a special council that will recommend steps to take to safeguard the town from future foods. While spending money to elevate their houses would help residents escape flooding on the scale that followed Floyd, FEMA officials say selling the property and moving is the best solution. North Carolina officials estimate 57,000 structures were damaged by Floyd, and that 24,000 of those were destroyed or left uninhabitable. More than 3,300 pieces of property are in line to be purchased and demolished at a cost of about $231 million, said Eric Tolbert, state emergency management director. ‘This will be the largest single buyout project in the history of North Carolina and in FEMA,” Copenhaver said.
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