1. FEMA FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY UPDATES
City Council Workshop
July 7, 2008

2. OVERVIEW
FEMA last updated the Fillmore Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) in 1984
FEMA is currently updating the FIRM map in a two step process
Step 1 – Adopt a Digital FIRM (DFIRM) map in about June 2009
Step 2 – Do a complete Flood Insurance Study and adopt a revised Digital FIRM in about 2011

3. Step 1 – First DFIRM
May 30, 2008 Preliminary Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map
Pole Creek Areas that will have to purchase flood insurance
Blue shaded areas will have to purchase flood insurance
Riverwalk neighborhood is outside of 100-yr Floodplain, no insurance required

4. INITIAL REVIEW COMMENTS ON FEMA STUDY
The only encroachment into the Sespe Levee freeboard is upstream Hwy 126 bridge
FEMA hydraulic model has Hwy 126 bridge 2.5 feet to low, 12 bridge piers rather than 11 and piers 3’ thick instead of 15”.
It is possible once FEMA makes corrections Sespe Creek Flood Plain and Floodway may be eliminate on this draft of the DFIRM

5. Comments of First DFIRM
Pole Creek friction factors to large
Area of encroachment into levee freeboard
East Hwy 126 bridge 2.5 feet too low

6. Step 1 Technical comments due by October 30, 2008
Projected adoption date: June 2009

7. Step 2
FEMA released preliminary draft Flood Insurance Study May 8, 2008
FEMA now accepting comments
FEMA plans to release draft Flood Insurance Study October 2008 and adopt in 2010
Draft preliminary map shows Floodways inside existing city

8. Draft Flood Insurance Study Shows Flooodways in City
West Sespe Floodway
Sespe Floodway inside City
Pole Creek Floodways
Pole Creek Floodways
East Sespe Floodway
Santa Clara River Floodway

9. IMPACT OF FLOODWAY
Floodways intended to protect center of river from obstruction
If Floodway established in City:
City cannot issue building permits for room additions or new homes
City cannot issue building permits for business buildings
If a building is destroyed it can only be replaced the same as original

10. FUTURE ACTIVITIES
City working with Ventura County Watershed Protection District to provide technical review
FEMA will hold public workshops in Spring of 2009 prior to map adoption