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Kenai Peninsula Borough staff outline effects of updated FEMA floodplain maps for Kenai River
Summary
Samantha Lopez, manager at the River Center, told the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in a work session that a forthcoming ordinance would adopt updated Federal Emergency Management Agency floodplain maps covering about 47 miles of the Kenai River, from Skilak Lake downstream to the inlet and including some tributaries.
Samantha Lopez, manager at the River Center, told the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in a work session that a forthcoming ordinance would adopt updated Federal Emergency Management Agency floodplain maps covering about 47 miles of the Kenai River, from Skilak Lake downstream to the inlet and including some tributaries.
Lopez said the new maps replace data that in many places dates to 1981 and that the updated product is in a modern datum, contains aerial imagery and building footprints, and reflects a clearer delineation of flood risk. “What this ordinance is essentially going to do is adopt updated regulatory floodplain maps for 47 miles of the Kenai River,” Lopez said. She added that “the risk is already there, and the maps are just... showing that.”
Why it matters: the assembly was told the borough has been a participating community in the National Flood Insurance Program since 1986 and currently regulates development in the floodplain. Lopez said the borough has about 7,000 properties…
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