Revised FEMA flood maps take effect in June
Gray area depicts special flood zone hazard areas subject to inundation by the 1% annual chance flood. This detail of a FEMA map shows the City of Woodland wastewater ponds in the middle. The proposed Gateway II annexation is to the left of the upper ponds. Click here for the full FEMA map of this area.
From Yolo County, Public Information:
On December 19, 2008, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued new preliminary flood zone maps. The revised maps, which will take effect on June 18, 2010, have significantly expanded the area of high-risk flood zones within Yolo County.
Some property owners face new flood insurance requirements, and those seeking to build or to substantially add to existing buildings in high-risk flood zones may face new permitting and construction requirements. Design requirements may also have changed based on the newly proposed flood zones for those planning new construction or improvements to a home or business in a high-risk flood zone.
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This new map is bull. The city and the corp have partnered to put more of Woodland in the flood zone. Specifically the sewer ponds and the area of petrovichs project. We were told that area is not and would not be in the flood zone yet here it is.
Something does not add up. Start digging up old documents it will become very clear why they would want to add the sewer ponds to the newly revised map.
The FEMA maps are basically very subjective to whichever engineer works on the draft and elevations. FEMA takes their elevations and determinations as basic fact.
Building in the flood plain spreads the flooding out to other properties. Like when you drop a rock into a puddle adn the water spreads out. The developers want this as they can buy cheap ag land but the existing homes pay the real cost. What is happening here appears to be just like what happened in Natomas.
Cache needs to be fixed and levees reinforced.
We do not need to develop in the flood plain.
What is odd and has been reported to FEMA is that the old flood maps brought forward by Gary Wagner showed the original Auto Mall that Paul Petrovice owns NOT in the flood plain. It was a PERFECT square in the middle of a deep flooding area. It is right by the bypass and Conaway Ranch. Now how can that be when the site and adjoining parcels were planted in alfalfa and flood irrigated?
It has to do with the NEW mini flood wall. Now just 3 feet and the surface water project between Davis, West Sac, UC Davis (I hear they pulled out) and Woodland. It is all about development and the residents are faced footing the bill.
Bottom line is Gary Wagner shoudl have been making upgrades to the water / sewer ponds years ago and was diverting money.
Woodland wasted close to 1.5 million out of the General Fund trying to promote the Flood Wall, Twice to benefit the Woodland Industrial developers that had no business developing in an area of DEEP flooding in the first place.
And to save the usual suspects the name calling, and for history sake - I live in the county and my property is not in the flood plain and the Flood Wall would inundate 3,000 acres of class one soil and place this rich land in the extended area of the bypass, which would have been a huge loss to the agricultural community.
As we correctly stated, once homes are placed in the FEMA flood plain it is up to the banks to remove the insurance requirement, even if the maps are changed and people are finding out that this is the case.
The answer is not to develop in the flood plain and spread water and higher insurance and potential of the flooding onto adjacent properties.
Brenda Cedarblade
BC is back to buck the bull. Same old story and Woodland still doesn't flood protection thanks to BC, Nancy, Frank and group.
Looks like good ole boy politics in play again. How do THEY get the map THEY want and flood the rest of us?
Dino, is there an email address for FEMA or the representative we can complain to so we do not have a Woodland version of Natomas on our hands?
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