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Show 300 homes added to Centerville flood area TTERVILLE Nearly 300 homes have been .iuud to designated flood or debris-flow portions of Centerville due to a federal study reluctantly adopted by City Council Tuesday night, and those financed with federal housing monies wUl be in need of flood insurance. in-surance. The board adopted revised maps outlining flood-prone flood-prone areas below several canyons in the community. The maps were originally prepared 10 years ago by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), then revised after debris flows during the floods of 1983. They are resubmitted every two years. City Council adopted the revised maps following appeals ap-peals from Centerville and the Davis County flood con trol department Those appeals actually prevented 210 other homes near Parrish Creek and Ricks Canyons from also being included in the Zone A area. Homes affected by the enlarged Zone A are among those below Lone Pine, Barnard Creek, Ricks Creek, Deuel Creek and Parrish Creek canyons. The impact of the new designation is that home owners in those zones who have homes either financed by federal loans or through federally-insured institutions institu-tions must now have flood insurance. That will cost the average homeowner an additional $300 to $400 a year. Council also imposed a temporary building moratorium for six months on new home construction within the Zone A area, but City Administrator David Hales told the Clipper that the city hopes to complete studies within the next two to three months that will allow that moratorium to be lifted. At issue is the accuracy of the FEMA maps, which detail areas where debris and mud flows could impact homes as they flow from the canyons along the Wasatch Wa-satch Front The federal agency is mapping all potentially poten-tially hazardous areas on the range, and Centerville's study happened to be reported first Farmington City is undergoing a similar study now, and plans to file an appeal ap-peal similar to that filed by Centerville. SEE FLOOD ON A-3 o Flood OcONTINUED FROM A-l Council was forced to adopt the maps to avoid the risk of possibly losing federal approval for subsidized sub-sidized flood insurance. "Had we not adopted the maps," Hales explained, ' 'the federal government could have chosen not to renew subsidized flood insurance to anyone in Centerville." Hales added that refinements in the study will be completed in the new few months. In the meantime, 300 homeowners will need to shore up their insurance coverage while city officials work to refine the impacted im-pacted flood zone areas. |