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Seminole County accepts basin studies that expand modeled 100‑year floodplains; staff to send maps to FEMA
Summary
The board unanimously accepted final Lake Monroe and Big/Little Econahatchee basin studies that update flood modeling and increase the county's modeled 100‑year floodplain areas; staff will deliver models to development review and submit final maps to FEMA.
Seminole County commissioners on Jan. 13 accepted final basin study reports for Lake Monroe/Lockhart Smith Canal and the Big and Little Econahatchee basins, after staff described updated hydrologic modeling that increases the county's mapped 100‑year floodplain in those basins.
Joseph Fafaso, chief design engineer for Seminole County Public Works, said the updated modeling raises the Lake Monroe 100‑year inundation mapping from 6.9 square miles (based on older FEMA maps) to 8.7 square miles—an…
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