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<br /> dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations or storage of <br /> <br /> equipment or materials. <br /> [(-lam] "Drainage facility" -See "Watercourse." <br /> [(q-3}] "Encroachment" means the advance or infringement of uses, plant growth, <br /> till, excavation, buildings, permanent structures or development into a floodplain <br /> which may impede or alter the flow capacity of a floodplain. <br /> [(-E4~] "Existing manufactured home park or subdivision" means a manufactured <br /> <br /> home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the <br /> lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, <br /> the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading <br /> or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before May 5, 1982. <br /> [(-l3~] "Fill" is the placement of fill material at a specitied location to bring the <br /> ground surface up to a desired elevation. <br /> "Fill material" can be natural sand, dirt, soil or rock. For the purposes of <br /> floodplain management, fill material may include concrete, cement, soil cement, <br /> brick, or similar material as approved on a case-by-case basis. <br /> "Flood, flooding, or [#~ee~l-ivetef] floodwater" means_ <br /> [(-t~] ~ [a] A general and temporary condition of partial or complete <br /> inundation of normally dry land areas from: <br /> [(-i~] ~ [the] The overflow of inland or tidal waters[,] ; <br /> ~ [the] The unusual and rapid accumulation of runoff or <br /> surface waters from any source which are approximately <br /> caused by flooding as defined in paragraph (A)(ii) of this <br /> definition and are akin to a river of water on the surfaces of <br /> normally dry land areas, as when earth is carved by a <br /> current of water and deposited along the path of the current; <br /> and <br /> ~ [the] The collapse or subsidence of land along the shore of a lake or <br /> other body of water as a result of erosion or undermining caused by <br /> waves or currents of water exceeding anticipated cyclical levels or <br /> suddenly caused by an unusually high water level in a natural body of <br /> water, accompanied by a severe storm, or by an unanticipated force of <br /> nature, such as flash tood or an abnormal tidal surge, or by some <br /> similarly unusual and unforeseeable event which results in flooding as <br /> defined in paragraph [(,4)(-i~] (1)(A) of this definition. <br /> [(q-S~] "Flood elevation determination" means a determination by the Federal <br /> ~ Emeraency Management Aaencv of the water surface <br /> elevations of the base flood, that is, the flood level that has a one percent or <br /> greater chance of occurrence in any given year. <br /> [(a-9~] "Flood elevation study" or "flood study" means an examination, <br /> evaluation, and determination of flood hazards and, if appropriate, corresponding <br /> water surface elevations, or an examination, evaluation, and determination of <br /> flood-related erosion hazards. <br /> "Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)" means the official map on which the <br /> Federal Emergency Management Agency c,.a,._..i r„......,..,^^ ~ a„.:„:,,._..«:,.„] <br /> 5 <br /> <br />