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Potential Changes to Richfield Code regarding Floodplain District

8/29/2015

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The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was established with the passage of the National Flood Insurance Rate Act of 1968. The NFIP is a Federal program enabling property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance as a protection against flood loses in exchange for State and community floodplain management regulations that reduce future flood damages. Nationwide over 21,000 communities participate in this program. As a participating community in the NFIP, Richfield is responsible for making sure that its floodplain management regulations meet or exceed the minimum requirements of the NFIP. By law, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cannot offer flood insurance in communities that do not have regulations that meet or exceed these minimum requirements.
Each time FEMA provides a community with additional flood hazard data, the municipality must adopt new floodplain management regulations or amend existing regulations to incorporate the new data and meet any additional requirements that result from any changes in the data.

Due to the Village's proactive approach to notifying its residents regarding this change, the WI-DNR utilized FEMA grant money to analyze the effects by modeling seven (7) different scenarios as potential ways to reduce the floodplain contours on the south side of Friess Lake. From speaking with Staff members at the DNR and Richfield Village Engineer, the residents on the south side of Friess Lake stand to be impacted the most because of the new maps. FEMA and the WI-DNR have placed the majority of properties on the south side in the 'Roadway' which is the most restrictive of the floodplain designations

The Plan Commission has a scheduled a Public Hearing at the September 3, 2015 meeting. Residents might want to attend the meeting to obtain more information or speak to the issue.

Source: Portions of the Village of Richfield Plan Commission Packet for September 3, 2015

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