JACKSON TWP — Municipalities are required to follow federal guidelines outlining what they must prevent from being built in floodplains.

They also have to follow the law and not be overly strict when implementing those restrictions.

Representatives from nearly a dozen southern Butler County municipalities learned on Monday about what can and cannot be done when communities move to mitigate flooding by restricting building in floodplains.

The municipalities, which have been working together for more than two years to come up with a collaborative approach to prevent stormwater damage, heard about these limits from Bill Bradfield, the state’s National Flood Insurance Program coordinator, as well as Don Graham, an attorney with Dillon McCandless King Coulter & Graham.

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