§ 165-17. Identification of flood-prone areas.

A. 

For the purposes of this article, the areas considered to be flood-prone within the Borough shall be those areas identified as being subject to the one-hundred-year flood in the Flood Insurance Study prepared for the Borough by the Federal Insurance Administration dated June 1978, or the most recent revision thereof.

[Amended 5-3-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-05]

B. 

A map showing all areas considered to be flood-prone is available for inspection at the Borough offices. For the purposes of this article, the following nomenclature is used in referring to the various kinds of flood-prone areas:

(1) 

FW (Floodway Area). The areas identified as "Floodway" in the FIS prepared by the FEMA. The term shall also include floodway areas which have been identified in other available studies or sources of information for those floodplain areas where no floodway has been identified in the Flood Insurance Study prepared by the FEMA.

(2) 

FF (Flood-Fringe Area). The areas identified as "Floodway Fringe" in the Flood Insurance Study prepared by the FIA.

Amended 10-8-1987 by Ord. No. 87-5