§ 395-40. Floodplains.

A. 

Floodplains shall be calculated using the method established in Appendix IV of this chapter and shown on all subdivision and land development plans. The floodplain controls established within Borough ordinances shall be applied to those floodplains.

B. 

The Borough Council may require that vehicular access be provided to each dwelling unit within a subdivision or land development over a street or other approved means of access which is elevated above the level of the one-hundred-year flood.

C. 

The following controls shall apply to the floodplains:

(1) 

No watercourse shall be altered or relocated unless approved by the Borough Council and, where applicable, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Dams and Waterway Management, and FEMA.

(2) 

No watercourse shall be altered or relocated unless the person proposing the alteration or relocation submits calculations assuring that the flood-carrying capacity within the altered or relocated portion of the watercourse shall be designed to be not less than the flood-carrying capacity of the watercourse prior to the proposed alteration or relocation.

(3) 

No encroachment shall be made on a floodplain or watercourse which will increase flood levels within the Borough during the occurrence of the one-hundred-year flood discharge. With any proposal for an encroachment, calculations which will indicate compliance with this requirement shall be submitted to the Borough. All encroachments are subject to Borough Council approval. Encroachments into the one-hundred-year floodway must be reviewed and approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and FEMA.

(4) 

The placement of all structures within the floodway as shown on current FEMA maps of the Borough of Walnutport is prohibited.

(5) 

No construction or development shall be permitted within the floodplain without approval from the U.S. Corps of Engineers and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.