TOWN OF ERIN, Wis. — Washington County community members are seeing change after speaking out about the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' future floodplain map proposal.

The DNR moved Druid Lake homes out of the flood storage district after community members spoke out against it. They initially changed the lake and surrounding properties to flood storage from the floodplain.

Two months ago, the Town of Erin community members reached out with concerns about the DNR's plan to change the floodplain map. Specifically, people who live on Druid Lake were worried about the DNR changing their status from "floodplain" to "flood storage" because of their concerns that this move would impact what they could do to rebuild if a natural disaster strikes.

For over a year, the Druid Lake comm

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