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Flood Insurance Study FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND AND INCORPORATED AREAS Cecil County Community Community Name Number ↓ CECIL COUNTY (UNINCORPORATED AREAS) 240019 *CECILTON, TOWN OF 240020 CHARLESTOWN, TOWN OF 240021 CHESAPEAKE CITY, TOWN OF 240099 ELKTON, TOWN OF 240022 NORTH EAST, TOWN OF 240023 PERRYVILLE, TOWN OF 240024 PORT DEPOSIT, TOWN OF 240025 RISING SUN, TOWN OF 240158 *No Special Flood Hazard Areas Identified Revised: May 4, 2015 Federal Emergency Management Agency FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY NUMBER 24015CV000B NOTICE TO FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY USERS Communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) have established repositories of flood hazard data for floodplain management and flood insurance purposes. This Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report may not contain all data available within the Community Map Repository. Please contact the Community Map Repository for any additional data. Part or all of this FIS may be revised and republished at any time. In addition, part of the FIS may be revised by the Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) process, which does not involve republication or redistribution of the FIS. It is, therefore, the responsibility of the user to consult with community officials and to check the community repository to obtain the most current FIS components. Initial Countywide FIS Effective Date: July 8, 2013 Revised Countywide FIS Effective Date: May 4, 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Purpose of Study ..................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Authority and Acknowledgements ......................................................................... 1 1.3 Coordination ........................................................................................................... 2 2.0 AREA STUDIED ............................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Scope of Study ........................................................................................................ 3 2.2 Community Description .......................................................................................... 4 2.3 Principal Flood Problems ........................................................................................ 5 2.4 Flood Protection Measures ..................................................................................... 7 3.0 ENGINEERING METHODS ............................................................................................. 8 3.1 Hydrologic Analyses. .............................................................................................. 8 3.2 Hydraulic Analyses ............................................................................................... 15 3.3 Coastal Analyses ................................................................................................... 19 3.4 Vertical Datum ...................................................................................................... 30 4.0 FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS ...................................................... 30 4.1 Floodplain Boundaries .......................................................................................... 31 4.2 Floodways ............................................................................................................. 31 5.0 INSURANCE APPLICATIONS ...................................................................................... 45 6.0 FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP ................................................................................ 47 7.0 OTHER STUDIES ............................................................................................................ 47 8.0 LOCATION OF DATA .................................................................................................... 47 9.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES ......................................................................... 49 i TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED Page FIGURES Figure 1 – Transect Location Map 28 Figure 2 – Typical Transect Schematic 29 Figure 3 – Floodway Schematic 45 TABLES Table 1 – Flooding Sources Studied by Detailed Methods 4 Table 2 – Flooding Sources Studied by Approximate Methods 4 Table 3 – Eastern Coastal Plain Fixed Region Regression Equations 10 Table 4 – Western Coastal Plain Fixed Region Regression Equations 11 Table 5 – Piedmont Rural Fixed Region Regression Equations 12 Table 6 – Piedmont Urban Fixed Region Regression Equations 12 Table 7 – Summary of Discharges 13-15 Table 8 – Manning’s “n” Values 17 Table 9 – Summary of Stillwater Elevations 20 Table 10 – Transect Data 23-27 Table 11 – Floodway Data 33-44 Table 12 – Community Map History 48 EXHIBITS Exhibit 1 – Flood Profiles Big Elk Creek Panels 01P-03P Christina River Panels 04P-06P Dogwood Run Panel 07P Gravelly Run Panel 08P Laurel Run Panel 09P Little Elk Creek Panels 10P-12P Little Northeast Creek Panels 13P-14P Mill Creek Panels 15P-20P Northeast Creek Panel 21P Stone Run Tributary 1 Panels 22P-23P Stone Run Tributary 2 Panel 24P Susquehanna River Panels 25P-28P Unnamed Tributary to Laurel Run Panel 29P West Branch Christina River Panel 30P-33P West Branch Laurel Run Panel 34P Exhibit 2 – Flood Insurance Rate Map Index Flood Insurance Rate Map ii FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND AND INCORPORATED AREAS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of Study This Flood Insurance Study (FIS) revises and updates previous FISs / Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) in the geographic area of Cecil County, Maryland including the Towns of Cecilton, Charlestown, Chesapeake City, Elkton, North East, Perryville, Port Deposit, and Rising Sun, and the unincorporated areas of Cecil County (hereinafter referred to collectively as Cecil County), and aids in the administration of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. This study has developed flood risk data for various areas of the community that will be used to establish actuarial flood insurance rates. This information will also be used by Cecil County to update existing floodplain regulations as part of the Regular Phase of the NFIP, and by local and regional planners to further promote sound land use and floodplain development. Minimum floodplain management requirements for participation in the NFIP are set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 44 CFR, 60.3. Please note that on the effective date of this study, the Town of Cecilton has no identified Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs). This does not preclude future determinations of SFHAs that could be necessitated by changed conditions affecting the community (i.e. annexation of new lands) or the availability of new scientific or technical data about flood hazards. In some states or communities, floodplain management criteria or regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive than the minimum federal requirements. In such cases, the more restrictive criteria take precedence and the state (or other jurisdictional agency) will be able to explain them. 1.2 Authority and Acknowledgements The sources of authority for this FIS are the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. Information on the authority and acknowledgments for each jurisdiction with a pre- countywide printed FIS report. The FISs for the unincorporated areas of Cecil County, and the Towns of Charlestown, Chesapeake City, North East, and Rising Sun were prepared by the Flood Management Division of the Water Resources Administration (WRA) of the State of Maryland, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under Contract No. H-4621, and were completed in June 1980. The FIS for the Town of Elkton was prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for FEMA under Inter-Agency Agreement No. IAA-H-7-76, Project Order No. 20 and was 1 completed in July 1978. The FISs for the Towns of Perryville and Port Deposit were conducted by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) at the request of the Federal Insurance Administration (now FEMA), U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under Contract No. H-3496 and was completed in August 1976. There is no pre-countywide FIS for the Town of Cecilton; therefore the previous authority and acknowledgement information for this community is not included in this FIS. For the July 8, 2013, initial countywide FIS, revised hydrologic and hydraulic analyses were prepared for all streams except the Susquehanna River. The hydraulic analyses for the Susquehanna River were brought forward from the previous FISs. The revised analyses were completed by the USACE for the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) as part of the FEMA Map Modernization Program (MMP) under Contract No. ICA-05-CRL-01. This study was completed in March 2009. For this May 4, 2015, revised countywide FIS, the coastal analysis and mapping for Cecil County was conducted by FEMA under Project Nos. HSFE03-06-X-0023 and HSFE03-09-X-1108. The coastal analysis involved transect layout, field reconnaissance, erosion analysis, and overland wave modeling including wave setup, wave height analysis and wave runup. The projection used in the preparation of this May 4, 2015, revised countywide FIS was Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zone 18. The horizontal datum was North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83), GRS80 spheroid. Differences in datum, spheroid, projection, or UTM zones
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