South Boulder Creek Floodplain

Changes in the Flood Plain in East and South Boulder.

Points you should know:

The City of Boulder will begin enforcing land use and building code requirements on the affected properties based on the revised mapping within a month or less from now. Most newly affected properties will experience very shallow flooding within the 100 year floodplain and will see little change, if any, on their abiliity to alter the structure other than meeting code requirements designed to mitigate the flood hazard.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will formally adopt the proposed South Boulder Creek floodplain mapping in about a year from submittal by the City of Boulder.

Once FEMA adopts the revised mapping, owners of the affected properties will be required to obtain flood hazard insurance. In the interim, you may want to advise your clients that they should consider obtaining flood hazard insurance now, or before the revised mapping is adopted by FEMA since property owners can get substantially lower insurance premiums prior to adoption of the revised mapping.

I have posted the link to the proposed flood map. SOUTH BOULDER FLOOD MAP.

Looking up a property is a bit tedious but EXTREMELY important. Owners need to know they will be paying flood insurance within a year if the maps are approved by FEMA.