September 17, 2009
3 feet of bypass freeboard?
In what would be a major development in Hazen’s quest to keep the State Highway 200 Bypass recognized as a levee, engineers will likely know soon whether the bypass can be shown to have 3 feet of freeboard – one of Federal Emergency Management Agency’s major requirements when recognizing accredited levees. An accredited bypass levee would prevent all of Hazen south of the bypass from falling into the high-risk, high flood insurance premium flood zone.
