Board of Sups votes 5-0 to accept the FEMA maps for Lake Tulloch only

Much discussion was had about the FEMA flood zone maps for the Lake Tulloch area at the 5-27-14 Board of Supervisors meeting.

Currently the homes on Lake Tulloch lay within what FEMA has designated as a flood zone however, those maps are in question as the fact remains the water level cannot reach over 513.9 without pouring over the spillway. In addition the County has not ever issued permits for homes below the 513.9 level.

New maps drawn up by an independent consultant and supplied to FEMA allowed them to recreate their own maps, thereby taking the homes on the lake out of the flood zone.

This will alleviate the additional burden of flood insurance for some 400+ homes on the lake.

The concern addressed by most Supervisors is if this acceptance of the Lake Tulloch map would be a blanket acceptance of the flood maps for the whole County. Therefore, they asked the County  Planner to rewrite the acceptance of FEMA's new maps clearly stating that they were being accepted by the BOS for the Lake Tulloch area only.

Lake Tulloch FEMA flood plain mapping on 5-27-14 BOS agenda

Regular agenda item #14.

PLANNING.

Adopt a Resolution accepting as “best available data” for the Tulloch Reservoir

shoreline the FEMA Calaveras County Floodplain Mapping based on LiDAR topography dated August 2013 and the Base Flood Elevation of 513.9 ft. NAVD 88 calculated by Hawkins and Associates Engineering Inc.; and direct the FEMA Floodplain Administrator to sign the Application for Letter of Map Revision for Tulloch Reservoir and issue the Public Notice to revise the FEMA Floodplain at the shoreline and adopt a Base Flood Elevation of

514 ft. NAVD 88 at Tulloch Reservoir on FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map Panels 06009C0675E, 06109C0825C AND 06109C1150C; Board action

 

 

Letter to the BOS from David Tunno re: FEMA flood map recommendations

9/27/2011

From:  David Tunno

To:  The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors

Re:  FEMA flood map recommendations

The recommendations that follow have to do with the revised flood maps FEMA is currently producing for this county.  They are provided with the understanding that, while much of what FEMA has done and is doing is with the authority granted by Congress, ultimately, the county has the authority to accept or reject FEMA’s flood map.  Thus, that is a power the county can exercise to protect its citizens.

To address some of the inequities that have given rise to complaints and even law suits against FEMA, and to protect the rights of the property owners affected by the revised flood map, I recommend the board impose on FEMA the following requirements as a condition for the board to approve the new flood map:

1.      Notify FEMA that for all parcels it adds to the flood map (over those which pre-existed FEMA’s involvement), it must include proof, by competent engineering, that the addition is justified.

2.      With respect to the aforesaid parcels, where there is a structure on the parcel, FEMA must include proof, through competent engineering, that said structure is or is not also in the flood zone.

Compliance by FEMA to both requirements would accomplish the following: