User:Jmonson/Floodway delineation

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Floodway delineation is the process by which an area is marked for use as a floodway. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) defines a floodway as follows:

A "Regulatory Floodway" means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Floodway". Federal Emergency Management Agency. July 18, 2017. https://www.fema.gov/floodway. Retrieved on January 10, 2018.