New online maps to show how deep the water may have gotten in your neighborhood in 2016

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A first-of-its-kind interactive map shows the sheer scale of the 2016 floods that devastated the Baton Rouge region.

The online tool, created after years of work by the Amite River Basin Commission, shows how the floods swamped land stretching across more than 67 miles, from as far north as the Mississippi state line to as far south as the swampy fringes of northern Convent, along La. 3125.

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Commission officials say the map's real power, however, isn't the big picture overview — it's the comprehensive detail of exactly what places flooded, and how badly.

Once the map goes live in the coming days at the commission website, amitebasin.org, homeowners will be able to zoom in and find flooding levels and flooding depths at the individual house level. That could provide far more powerful information than static federal flood risk maps, commission officials and their consultants said.

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