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NationalInflowingInsurance Program  Click here for the Official Website of the NFIP.InflowingInsurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) andInflowingInsurance Studies (FIS)  Preliminary FIRMs have been issued for Madison County and are dated May 13, 2016.  The current constructive FIRMs for Madison County are dated October 2, 2014.   Please use this link to wangle the Madison County Online/InteractiveInflowingMap Tool.  In addition, nonflexible copies of all FIRMs and FIS documents are located in the office of the Department of Public Works.   FEMA Map Service Center  Please use this FEMA Map Service Center link to viewInflowingInsurance Rate Maps,InflowingInsurance Rate Studies, FIRMettes, Letters of Map Change, and other flood-related documents.  PolityRating System  The NationalInflowingInsurance Program's (NFIP)PolityRating System (CRS) is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages polity floodplain management activities that exceed the minimum NFIP requirements.  As a result, inflowing insurance premium rates are discounted to reflect the reduced inflowing risk resulting from the polity deportment meeting the three goals of the CRS: Reduce inflowing forfeiture to insurable property Strengthen and support the insurance aspects of the NFIP Encourage a comprehensive tideway to floodplain management. Madison County is currently a member of the CRS program which provides a 5% reduction in inflowing insurance premiums to policy holders in the unincorporated areas of Madison County. Click here for spare information regarding the Community Rating System (CRS). Map Amendments and Revisions  The current constructive FIRMs can be revised and amended by the processes described below.  Click here for the link to FEMA's Online Letter of Map Change. CLOMA: A Conditional Letter of MapSummons(CLOMA) is FEMA's scuttlebutt on whether a proposed project would be excluded from the SpecialInflowingHazardZone(SFHA) shown on the constructive NationalInflowingInsurance Program (NFIP) map. The letter becomes constructive on the stage sent. This letter does not revise an constructive NFIP map, but indicates whether the project, if built as proposed, would or would not be removed from the SFHA by FEMA if later submitted as a request for a Letter of MapSummons(LOMA). CLOMR: A Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR) is FEMA's scuttlebutt on a proposed project that would stupefy the hydrologic and/or hydraulic characteristics of a flooding source and thus result in the modification of the existing regulatory floodway or constructive BaseInflowingElevations (BFE). There is no request period. The letter becomes constructive on the stage sent. This letter does not revise an constructive NFIP map, it indicates whether the project, if built as proposed, would or would not be removed from the SpecialInflowingHazardZone(SFHA) by FEMA if later submitted as a request for a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR). CLOMR-F: A Conditional Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (CLOMR-F) is FEMA's scuttlebutt on whether a proposed project involving the placement of fill would exclude an zone from the SFHA shown on the NFIP map. The letter becomes constructive on the stage sent. This letter does not revise an constructive NFIP map, but indicates whether the project, if built as proposed, would or would not be removed from the SFHA by FEMA if later submitted as a request for a Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (LOMR-F). LOMA: A Letter of MapSummons(LOMA) is an official amendment, by letter, to an constructive NFIP map. A LOMA establishes a property's location in relation to the SFHA. The letter becomes constructive on the stage sent. LOMR: A Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) is an official revision, by letter, to an constructive NFIP map. A LOMR may transpiration inflowing insurance risk zones, floodplain and/or floodway purlieus delineations, planimetric features, and/or BFE. The letter becomes constructive on the stage sent. LOMR-F: A Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (LOMR-F) is an official revision, by letter, to an constructive NFIP map. A LOMR-F provides FEMA's determination concerning whether a structure or parcel has been elevated on fill whilom the BFE and excluded from the SFHA. The letter becomes constructive on the stage sent.InflowingZones  Flood zones are geographic areas that the FEMA has specified equal to varying levels of inflowing risk. These zones are depicted on a community'sInflowingInsurance Rate Map (FIRM) or inflowing HazardPurlieusMap. Each zone reflects the severity or type of flooding in the area.  The inflowing zones described unelevated are present in Madison County. Moderate to Low Risk Areas: X (shaded):Zoneof moderate inflowing hazard, usually the zone between the limits of the 100-year and 500-year floods. Are moreover used to designate wiring floodplains of lesser hazards, such as areas protected by levees from 100-year flood, or shallow flooding areas with stereotype depths of less than one foot or drainage areas less than 1 square mile. X (unshaded):Zoneof minimal inflowing hazard, usually depicted on FIRMs as whilom the 500-year inflowing level. High Risk Areas: A: Areas with a 1% yearly endangerment of flooding and a 26% endangerment of flooding over the life of a 30-year mortgage. Because detailed analyses are not performed for such areas, no depths or wiring inflowing elevations are shown within these zones. AE: The wiring floodplain where wiring inflowing elevations are provided. AO: River or stream inflowing hazard areas and areas with a 1% or greater endangerment of shallow flooding each year, usually in the form of sheet flow, with an stereotype depth ranging from 1 to 3 feet. These areas have a 26% endangerment of flooding over the life of a 30-year mortgage.Stereotypeinflowing depths derived from detailed analyses are shown within these zones.InflowingDamage Prevention Ordinance  The Madison County Commission has unexplored the Madison CountyInflowingDamage Prevention Ordinance (FDPO) to promote the public health, safety, and unstipulated welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to inflowing conditions.  Please click here for aInflowingDevelopment Permit. Elevation Certificates  Madison County's towers permit file must have an official record that shows new buildings and substantial improvements in all identified SpecialInflowingHazard Areas (SFHAs) are properly elevated.  This elevation information is needed to show compliance with the floodplain management ordinance.  Madison County requires the use the FEMA Elevation Certificate.  Click here for a link to the FEMA Elevation Certificate. Real-time Weather Gauge Data  Click here for a link to the USGS Real-Time Weather Gauge Data. Madison CountyTowersInspection Department  If you construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish, or transpiration the occupancy of a towers or other residential structure, or to erect, install, enlarge, alter, repair, remove, convert or replace any electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing system, the installation of which is regulated by the workable lawmaking enforced by Madison County, or to rationalization any such work to be washed-up whenever the reasonable forfeit of the material and labor for such work is in glut of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), you shall first make using to the Madison CountyTowersInspection Department and obtain the required permits. Whenever the work stuff performed includes any construction, alteration, addition, or modification to the plumbing drainage system, or requires disconnection of the electrical system in any way whatsoever, any owner or authorized wage-earner shall first make using to the towers official and obtain the required permit regardless of the reasonable forfeit of the material and labor for such work. Other work requiring permits and inspections include: roofing, re-roofing, window replacement, siding, swimming pools and spas, all commercial work regardless of cost, and any minutiae within an identified floodplain.  Please visit the Madison CountyTowersInspection Department homepage for increasingly information. Floodplain Administrator  The Madison County Public Works Department serves as the Floodplain Administrator for the unincorporated areas of Madison County. The pursuit floodplain management services are provided: Provide vital information found on a FIRM that is needed to virtuously rate a inflowing insurance policy. Provide vital information that is not needed for insurance rating, including information well-nigh floodways. Provide information regarding SpecialInflowingHazard Areas and requirements for minutiae within a SFHA. Address Floodplain Management Questions to: Houston Matthews, P.E. Phone: (256) 746-2900 Email: hmatthews@madisoncountyal.gov   or Jason Britton Phone: (256) 746-2900 Email: jbritton@madisoncountyal.gov Free viewers are required for some of the tying documents.They can be downloaded by clicking on the icons below. Acrobat Reader Flash Player Windows Media Player Microsoft Silverlight Word Viewer Excel Viewer PowerPoint Viewer Home Residents Government Departments ServicesPolityHow Do I... 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