Chapter 28 - Special Flood Hazard Area Development Regulations
Division 3 - Base Flood Elevation
SEC. 28.3. - BASE FLOOD ELEVATION. This ordinance's protection standard is the base flood. The best available base flood data are listed below. Whenever a party disagrees with the best available data, the party may finance the detailed engineering study needed to replace the existing data with better data and submit it to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for approval.
- The base flood elevation for the floodplains of Sugar Creek
and Skunk Creek shall be as delineated on the 100-year flood
profiles in the Flood Insurance Study of McLean County, Illinois,
and Incorporated Areas prepared by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency and dated February 9, 2001.
- The base flood elevation for each floodplain delineated
as an "AH Zone" or "AO Zone" shall be that elevation (or depth)
delineated on the Flood Insurance Rate Map of McLean County,
Illinois, and Incorporated Areas.
- The base flood elevation for each of the remaining floodplains
delineated as an "A Zone" on the Flood Insurance Rate Map of
McLean County, Illinois, and Incorporated Areas shall be according
to the best data available from federal, state or other sources.
Should no other data exist, an engineering study must be financed
to determine base flood elevations.
- The base flood elevation for the floodplains of those parts of unincorporated McLean County that are within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Town, or that may be annexed into the Town, shall be as delineated on the 100-year flood profiles of the Flood Insurance Study of McLean County prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and dated February 9, 2001.