After another year of flooding along the Lake Ontario shoreline, federal emergency management officials surveyed the damage in Sodus Point Monday.

FEMA’s acting director says there isn't much the federal government can do until state and local officials determine whether there was enough damage to declare a disaster. Water levels on the lake reached a 100-year high this past spring. Critics continue to blame Plan 2014, the Lake Ontario water regulation plan, for flooding along lakeshore towns in 2017 and again in 2019. 

“It sounds, as it's explained to me, that it's man-made,” said Pete Gaynor, acting FEMA director. “This agreement is driving the problem, not a natural occurrence."

FEMA suggests in the meantime that homeowners make sure they have enough flood insurance to cover expected lakeshore flooding in the future.

“It becomes astronomically unreasonable to be paying flood insurance for something that's a man-made creation,” said Susan, a Sodus Point resident who didn’t want to give her last name. “It's unfair."

FEMA officials say they will take the information gathered during their visit to see if there is anything else they can do to assist flooded lakeshore towns.