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MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON Multnomah County AND INCORPORATED AREAS COMMUNITY COMMUNITY NAME NUMBER FAIRVIEW, CITY OF 410180 GRESHAM, CITY OF 410181 MULTNOMAH COUNTY UNINCORPORATED AREAS 410179 TROUTDALE, CITY OF 410184 *WOOD VILLAGE, CITY OF 410185 *No Special Flood Hazard Areas Identified PRELIMINARY Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Study Number 41051CV000B NOTICE TO FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY USERS Communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program 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. Selected Flood Insurance Rate Map panels for the community contain information that was previously shown separately on the corresponding Flood Boundary and Floodway Map panels (e.g. floodways, cross sections). In addition, former flood hazard zone designations have been changed as follows: Old Zone New Zone A1 through A30 AE B X (shaded) C X (unshaded) Part or all of this may be revised and republished at any time. In addition, part of this FIS may be revised by a Letter of Map Revision 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 report components. This FIS report was revised on (add new effective date). User should refer to Section 10.0, Revision Descriptions, for further information. Section 10.0 is intended to present the most up-to-date information for specific portions of this FIS report. Therefore, users of this FIS report should be aware that the information presented in Section 10.0 supersedes information in Sections 1.0 through 9.0 of this FIS report. Initial Countywide FIS Effective Date: December 18, 2009 Revised Effective Date: TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Purpose of Study 1 1.2 Authority and Acknowledgements 1 1.3 Coordination 3 2.0 AREA STUDIED 5 2.1 Scope of Study 5 2.2 Community Description 8 2.3 Principal Flood Problems 13 2.4 Flood Protection Measures 16 3.0 ENGINEERING METHODS 20 3.1 Hydrologic Analyses 20 3.2 Hydraulic Analyses 22 3.3 Vertical Datum 32 4.0 FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS 33 4.1 Floodplain Boundaries 33 4.2 Floodways 34 5.0 INSURANCE APPLICATION 68 6.0 FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP 69 7.0 OTHER STUDIES 69 8.0 LOCATION OF DATA 71 9.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES 71 10.0 REVISION DESCRIPTION 77 10.1 First Revision 77 10.2 Second Revision 78 10.3 Third Revision 81 10.4 Fourth Revision 82 FIGURES Figure 1 – Floodway Schematic 35 TABLES Table 1 – Initial and Final CCO Meetings 3 Table 2 – Detailed Study Streams 5 Table 3 – Approximate Study Streams 6 i TABLES (continued) Table 4 – Regulatory Effect of Flood Control Reservoirs 18 Table 5 – Summary of Elevations 23 Table 6 – Summary of Discharges 25 Table 7 – Roughness Coefficients 28 Table 8 – Floodway Data 37 Table 9 – Flood Insurance Zones within Each Community 68 Table 10 – Community Map History 70 Table 11 – Revised Study Descriptions 81 EXHIBITS Exhibit 1 – Flood Profiles Beaver Creek Panel 01P-03P Brick Creek Panel 04P Columbia River Panels 05P-10P Fairview Creek Panels 11P-22P Fairview Creek – East Pond Panel 23P Fairview Creek – NE Glisan Street Overflow Panels 24P-25P Hogan Creek Panels 26P-28P Johnson Creek Panel 29P-47P Johnson Creek City Park Side Channel Panel 48P Johnson Creek Telford Split Flow Panel 49P Kelley Creek Panels 50P-54P Kelly Creek Panel 55P-58P MacDonald Creek Panel 59P Multnomah Channel Panels 60P-61P North Fork Johnson Creek Panels 62P-64P North Fork Johnson Creek Split Flow Panel 65P Sandy River Panels 66P-75P Sunshine Creek Panels 76P-77P Unnamed Tributary to Rock Creek Panel 78P Willamette River Panels 79P-80P PUBLISHED SEPARATELY Flood Insurance Rate Map Index Flood Insurance Rate Map ii FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON AND INCORPORATED AREAS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of Study This Flood Insurance Study revises and updates information on the existence and severity of flood hazards in the geographic area of Multnomah County, including the Cities of Fairview, Gresham, Troutdale, and Wood Village Oregon; and the unincorporated areas of Multnomah County (referred to collectively herein as Multnomah 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 and to assist the community in its efforts to promote sound floodplain management. Minimum floodplain management requirements for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 44 CFR, 60.3. Please note that the City of Portland is geographically located in Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington Counties. The City of Portland is included in its own FIS report 410183V000A dated October 19th, 2004. The cities of Milwaukee and Lake Oswego are covered in the Clackamas County FIS report dated June 17, 2008. The City of Maywood Park is Area Not Included and the City of Wood Village has No Special Flood Hazard Areas Identified. 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 Acknowledgments The sources of authority for this Flood Insurance Study are the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for the initial study of the City of Gresham were performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Portland District, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), under Inter-Agency Agreement Nos. IAA-H-16-75 and IAA-H-7-76, Project Order Nos. 16 and 1, respectively. This work, which was completed in June 1977, covered all significant flooding sources affecting the City of Gresham. Additional analyses for this study were performed by the USACE, Portland District, for Multnomah County, Oregon. Information on Fairview Creek was incorporated into this study. The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for the unincorporated areas were performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Portland District, for FEMA, under Inter- Agency Agreement Nos. IAA-H-16-75, IAA-H-7-76, and IAA-H-10-77, Project Order Nos. 14, 1, and 23, respectively. This study was completed in July 1980. Hydraulic analyses for Johnson Creek were revised in January 1983 by the USACE, Portland District, to reflect channel improvements between River Miles 6.8 to 7.3. 1 Hydrologic analyses within Multnomah County Drainage District No. 1 were revised in a July 1984 report titled Multnomah Drainage District No. 1 Hydrology Study (Reference 1). The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for the City of Fairview were performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Portland District, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), under Inter-Agency Agreement No. EMW-E-1153, Project Order No. 1, Amendment No. 21. This study was completed in May 1985. The hydrologic and hydraulic analyses of Sandy River and the lower reach of Beaver Creek within the City of Troutdale were performed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Portland District, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), under Inter-Agency Agreement No. IAA-EMW-E-1153, Project Order No. 1, Amendment No. 21. The analyses for the two upper reaches of Beaver Creek were performed by the USACE for the Flood Insurance Study for the City of Gresham, Oregon (Reference 2). This study was completed in November 1985. Hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for Sandy River and Beaver Creek that were performed by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (SCS) in October 1977 (Reference 3) were adjusted by the USACE to produce this study. In 1985, additional USACE approximate analyses were added for Fairview Creek along the northern corporate limits of Gresham. In 1988, the USACE revised the reach of Fairview Creek from a point located approximately 2,200 feet upstream of Barr Street upstream to NE. Glisan Street to incorporate changes made in topography and removal of culverts and to model a split flow that would occur on the upstream side of and east of NE Glisan Street. In 1988, the USACE performed a revised study to upgrade the approximate analysis for Fairview Creek to a detailed study for the reach from approximately 1,000 feet downstream of Northeast Glisan Street to about 2,400 feet upstream of Southeast Division Street. The revised study was authorized under Inter-Agency Agreement No. EMW-E-2549, Project Order No. 9. In 1995, the USACE revised the reach of Fairview Creek from Bridge Street to Fairview Lake. The hydraulic analysis was performed under Contract No. EMW-90-E-3286. The analysis supporting the revision was completed in June 1991. In February 1996, the USACE revised a portion of Kelly Creek from the Mount Hood Community College (MHCC) dam upstream to Southeast Division Street. The revised analysis was performed by the USACE, Portland District, for FEMA, under Inter-Agency Agreement No. EMW-91-E-3529, Project Order No. 8A. The analysis supporting the revision was completed in June 1992. The Beaver Creek study was revised on August 3, 1998 to add detailed flood information, including the adoption of a regulatory floodway, from just upstream of Jackson Park Road to approximately 200 feet downstream of Southeast Stark Street.