DIGITAL FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP DATABASE, BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA AND INCORPORATED AREAS

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source description  Source Contribution: Spatial and attribute information, floodplain widths, BFEs, floodplain location, general structures, FIRM Panel Neatlines, cross sectionsSource Type paper

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Title Flood Insurance Study, Brantley County, Georgia and Incorporated Areas

publication  Date   2009-09-25

other Citation Details  The sources of authority for this Flood Insurance Study are the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. This FIS was prepared to include the incorporated communities within BRANTLEY County in a countywide format. The authority and acknowledgements for BRANTLEY County, GEORGIA, including the incorporated communities is not available since FIS reports have never been published for these communities. For this countywide FIS, new hydrologic and hydraulic analyses were performed by Watershed Concepts for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), under Contract No. 761-80189. This study was completed in July 2008.

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organisation Name  Federal Emergency Management Agency

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source description  Source Contribution: USGS Quad IndexSource Type online

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Title USGS Quad Index

publication  Date   2002-01-01

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organisation Name  USGS

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source description  Source Contribution: BenchmarksSource Type online

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Title Benchmarks

publication  Date   2006-11-29

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organisation Name  NOAA, NGS

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source description  Source Contribution: County BoundarySource Type online

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Title County Boundary

publication  Date   2006-01-01

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organisation Name  Georgia Department of Community Affairs

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source description  Source Contribution: Incorporated Community BoundariesSource Type online

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Title Incorporated Community Boundaries

publication  Date   1997-01-01

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organisation Name  Georgia Department of Transportation

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source description  Source Contribution: TransportationSource Type online

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Title Transportation

publication  Date   2008-01-01

cited responsible party - originator

organisation Name  Georgia Base Map

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source description  Source Contribution: HydrologySource Type online

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Title Hydrology

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cited responsible party - originator

organisation Name  USGS National Hydrography Dataset

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source description  Source Contribution: OrthophotographySource Type online

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Title Orthophotography

publication  Date   2007-01-01

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organisation Name  National Agriculture Imagery Program

AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy

name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report

evaluation Method Description  The DFIRM Database consists of community based vector files and associated attributes produced in conjunction with the hardcopy FEMA FIRM. The published effective FIRM and DFIRM are issued as the official designation of the SFHAs. As such they are adopted by local communities and form the basis for administration of the NFIP. For these purposes they are authoritative. Provisions exist in the regulations for public review, appeals and corrections of the flood risk information shown to better match real world conditions. As with any engineering analysis of this type, variation from the estimated flood heights and floodplain boundaries is possible. Details of FEMA's requirements for the FISs and flood mapping process that produces these data are available in the Guidelines and Specifications for Flood Hazard Mapping Partners. Horizontal accuracy was tested by manual comparison of source graphics with hardcopy plots and a symbolized display on an interactive computer graphic system. Independent quality control testing of FEMA's DFIRM database was also performed.

AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy

name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy Report

evaluation Method Description  The DFIRM Database consists of community based vector files and associated attributes produced in conjunction with the hardcopy FEMA FIRM. The published effective FIRM and DFIRM maps are issued as the official designation of the SFHAs. As such they are adopted by local communities and form the basis for administration of the NFIP. For these purposes they are authoritative. Provisions exist in the regulations for public review, appeals and corrections of the flood risk information shown to better match real world conditions. As with any engineering analysis of this type, variation from the estimated flood heights and floodplain boundaries is possible. Details of FEMA's requirements for the FISs and flood mapping process that produces these data are available in the Guidelines and Specifications for Flood Hazard Mapping Partners. Vertical accuracy was tested by manual comparison of source graphics with hardcopy plots and a symbolized display on an interactive computer graphic system. Independent quality control testing of FEMA's DFIRM database was also performed.

Completeness Commission

evaluation Method Description  Data contained in the DFIRM Database files reflect the content of the source materials. Features may have been eliminated or generalized on the source graphic, due to scale and legibility constraints. With new mapping, FEMA plans to maintain full detail in the spatial data it produces. However, older information is often transferred from existing maps where some generalization has taken place. Flood risk data are developed for communities participating in the NFIP for use in insurance rating and for floodplain management. Flood hazard areas are determined using statistical analyses of records of river flow, storm tides, and rainfall; information obtained through consultation with the communities; floodplain topographic surveys; and hydrological and hydraulic analysis. Both detailed and approximate analyses are employed. Generally, detailed analyses are used to generate flood risk data only for developed or developing areas of communities. For areas where little or no development is expected to occur, FEMA uses approximate analyses to generate flood risk data. Typically, only drainage areas that are greater than one square mile are studied.

Completeness Omission

evaluation Method Description  Data contained in the DFIRM Database files reflect the content of the source materials. Features may have been eliminated or generalized on the source graphic, due to scale and legibility constraints. With new mapping, FEMA plans to maintain full detail in the spatial data it produces. However, older information is often transferred from existing maps where some generalization has taken place. Flood risk data are developed for communities participating in the NFIP for use in insurance rating and for floodplain management. Flood hazard areas are determined using statistical analyses of records of river flow, storm tides, and rainfall; information obtained through consultation with the communities; floodplain topographic surveys; and hydrological and hydraulic analysis. Both detailed and approximate analyses are employed. Generally, detailed analyses are used to generate flood risk data only for developed or developing areas of communities. For areas where little or no development is expected to occur, FEMA uses approximate analyses to generate flood risk data. Typically, only drainage areas that are greater than one square mile are studied.

ConceptualConsistency

measure Description  When FEMA revises an FIS, adjacent studies are checked to ensure agreement between flood elevations at the boundaries. Likewise flood elevations at the confluence of streams studied independently are checked to ensure agreement at the confluence. The FIRM and the FIS are developed together and care is taken to ensure that the elevations and other features shown on the flood profiles in the FIS agree with the information shown on the FIRM. However, the elevations as shown on the FIRM are rounded whole-foot elevations. They must be shown so that a profile recreated from the elevations on the FIRM will match the FIS profiles within one half of one foot.