New FEMA flood maps prompt questions, concerns across Massachusetts

New FEMA flood maps prompt questions, concerns across Massachusetts

A view of the Charles River in Wellesley, where new housing is proposed. (Photo by Jordan Wolman/Commonwealth Beacon)It didn’t take long for the calls to start flowing into Peabody City Hall. Just a week or two after the Federal Emergency Management Agency updated flood maps across the Charles, Nashua, and Merrimack watersheds this past July, residents who found their homes newly included in the updated flood zones complained to city officials t…