Floodway definition

Floodway means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height.
Floodway or "Regulatory Floodway" means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot.
Floodway means the channel of a river or other watercourse, including the area above a bridge or culvert when applicable, and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one (1) foot.

Examples of Floodway in a sentence

  • Floodway: No fence shall be located within the Floodway except to the extent permitted by the Lake County Watershed Development Ordinance, as amended.

  • The Letter of Map Revision officially revises the Flood Insurance Rate Map or Flood Boundary and Floodway Map, and sometimes the Flood Insurance Study report, and when appropriate, includes a description of the modifications.

  • See LOC 50.44.005 All lands contained within the 100-year flood boundary as shown on the most recent Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) andFlood Boundary and Floodway Maps created for the National Flood Insurance Program by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

  • For example, several recent Management Plans developed for specific bushland reserves contain EVC mapping that indicates the presence of further EVCs, particularly aggregate EVC associated with wetlands such as 292: Red Gum Swamp, 334: Billabong Wetland Aggregate, 641: Riparian Woodland, 810: Floodway Pond Herbland, 821: Tall Marsh, 895: Escarpment Shrubland, 932: Wet Verge Sedgeland, and 949 Dwarf Floating Aquatic Herbland.

  • F-1 Draft Ordinance 2549 revising the Flood Management Area Map and amending Articles 50.02 (Definitions), 50.44 (Floodway Management Area) and 50.79 (Development Type and Review Criteria).F-2 Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) from FEMA.


More Definitions of Floodway

Floodway means an area that is identified on the flood insurance rate map as a regulatory floodway, which includes the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved for the discharge of a base flood, also referred to as a 100-year flood, without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation of more than a designated height.
Floodway means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot or as designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or National Flood Insurance Program. In the absence of FEMA/NFIP maps, a professional engineer must certify the floodway elevation and location.
Floodway means those portions of the area of a river valley lying streamward from the outer limits of a watercourse upon which flood waters are carried during periods of flooding that occur with reasonable regularity, although not necessarily annually, said floodway being identified, under normal condition, by changes in surface soil conditions or changes in types or quality of vegetative ground cover condition. The floodway shall not include those lands that can reasonably be expected to be protected from flood waters by flood control devices maintained by or maintained under license from the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state;
Floodway means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot at any point. Please note that flood hazard areas and floodways may be shown on a separate map panels.
Floodway means the channel of a river or stream and those portions of the flood plain adjoining the channel that are reasonably required to efficiently carry and discharge the peak flow from the base flood as determined by 312 IAC 10.
Floodway means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas, usually associated with flowing water, that must be reserved in order to discharge the 100-year flood or storm event without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot. This includes, but is not limited to, the floodway designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Floodway means the channel of a river or stream and those portions of the floodplain adjoining the channel required to carry the regional flood discharge.