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F5~Õ E~::~'.+~ E ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT- 200 3rd Street North Fargo, North Dakota 58102 Phone: (701) 241-1545 Fax: (701) 241-8101 E-Mail: feng@ci.fargo.nd.us July 25, 2003 John and Mary Swartz 4802 5ih St. N Harwood, NO 58042 Re: Removal of Floodway Designation from Residence Dear Mr. and Mrs. Swartz: This letter is intended to provide you with updated information related to your home being mapped into a floodway breakout corridor on FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Map. This was the result of a Flood Insurance Study conducted in the Reed Township area, based on information gained during the spring flood of 1997. The floodway breakout corridors that were established are intended to reflect water that broke out of the Sheyenne River and went overland to Cass County Drain 45. While efforts were made to prevent existing homes from being mapped into floodways, your home unfortunately was mapped into a floodway breakout corridor. While we certainly understand that this has been a source of frustration, there is the potential for this situation to be resolved, as we have explained previously. On Friday, July 25, 2003, I spoke with Will Thomas and Paul Flonack from Michael Baker Jr. Corporation in an effort to determine the best solution to having your home removed from the floodway. Michael Baker Jr. Corporation is a private firm that contracts with FEMA on flood mapping issues and was involved in the recent Reed Township Flood Insurance Study. They suggested that the easiest and perhaps fastest way to remove your home from the designated floodway is to apply for a Letter of Map Amendment (LaMA). A LOMA is an official revision by letter to an effective National Flood Insurance Program Map. To obtain a LaMA, a property o\¡vner must submit documentation to FEMA as to why their mapping is incorrect. The gentlemen I spoke with at Michael Baker Jr. Corp. felt that this could be accomplished by submitting a LaMA Application along with a new Elevation Certificate for your home. This requirés a survey of your home including the Lowest Adjacent Grade of the soil adjacent to your foundation. However. I recommend that the survey information obtained for the Elevation Certificate be more comprehensive than what is typically done in the preparation of an elevation certificate for flood insurance purposes. This is because you will need to insure that the area removed from the floodway will provide adequate space for your desired improvements or addition. Accompanying the elevation certificate should be a deed or copy of a plat map identifying your property, to insure that FEMA's Letter of Map Amendment appropriately describes your property. Street Lighting Sidewalks Design & Construction Traffic Engineering Truck Regulatory Flood Plain Mgmt. Mapping & GIS Utility Locations Fargo-\Ioorhead b.1fb:t1 ~lllP :0",