One-hundred-year flood means a flood having a one per cent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
One-hundred-year flood means a flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
One-hundred-year flood means the flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year (see “Base flood”).
More Definitions of One-hundred-year flood
One-hundred-year flood means a flood that has a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
One-hundred-year flood or “100-year flood” means a flood which has a one percent annual probability of being equaled or exceeded. It is identical to the ‘base flood,’ which will be the term used throughout this chapter.
One-hundred-year flood means a flood that has a one percent or less chance of recurring in any year or a flood of a magnitude equaled or exceeded once in 100 years on the average over a significantly long period.
One-hundred-year flood means a flood that has a one per- cent chance of being equalled or exceeded in any given year.
One-hundred-year flood means the level of flooding that will be equaled or exceeded once in one hundred (100) years and has a one percent chance of occurring each year, on the average as defined by the federal emergency management agency (F.E.M.A).
One-hundred-year flood means a flood which has a magnitude (peak discharge) which is expected to be equalled or exceeded on the average once during any one- hundred-year period (recurrence interval) and has a one percent chance of being equalled or exceeded during any year (0.01 exceedence probability). The terms "one-hundred-year flood", "one percent chance flood", and "intermediate regional flood" are synonymous.
One-hundred-year flood means a flood which has a one percent annual probability of being equaled or exceeded. It is identical to the “base flood.”