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0. FLOODPROOFING: Any combination of structural or nonstructural additions, changes, <br /> or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate, property and <br /> their contents. <br /> P. FLOODPROOFING CERTIFICATE: A form published by FEMA that is used to certify <br /> that a building has been designed and constructed to be structurally dry floodproofed to the flood <br /> protection elevation. <br /> Q. FLOOD PROTECTION ELEVATION (FPE): The elevation of the base flood plus two <br /> (2) feet of freeboard at any given location in the floodplain. <br /> R. FLOODWAY: That portion of the floodplain required to store and convey the base flood. <br /> The floodway for the floodplains of Sangamon River,Long Creek(East of Big Creek), Long Creek <br /> Trilttafy, heng Gfeek Big Gr-eek, Lon Cg reek, Big Creek, Big Creek Arm of Lake Decatur, <br /> Spring Creek, South Spring Gfee-, Spring Creek Tributary, Spring Creek Tributary East, Stevens <br /> Creek, Stevens Creek Tributary A, Stevens Creek Tributary B amends Creek, iends Greek Dite <br /> and the independene Northeast Drainage Ditch shall be as delineated on the 100-yeaf jqeefl <br /> pfefiles i countywide Flood Insurance Studyfer Rate Map of Macon County, Illinois, <br /> prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and dated Tti„e 16, 201 June 7, 2017. <br /> The floodways for each of the remaining floodplains of the City of Decatur shall be according to <br /> the best data available from the Federal State or other sources <br /> S. FREEBOARD: An increment of elevation added to the base flood elevation to provide a <br /> factor of safety for uncertainties in calculations,future watershed development,unknown localized <br /> conditions, wave actions and unpredictable effects such as those caused by ice or debris jams. (See <br /> definition of"Flood Protection Elevation") <br /> T. HISTORIC STRUCTURES: Any structure that is: <br />