A.
Ensure public safety through reducing the threats to life and personal
injury;
B.
Eliminate new hazards to emergency response officials;
C.
Prevent the occurrence of public emergencies resulting from water
quality, contamination, and pollution due to flooding;
D.
Avoid the loss of utility services which if damaged by flooding would
disrupt or shut down the utility network and impact regions of the
community beyond the site of flooding;
E.
Eliminate costs associated with the response and cleanup of flooding
conditions,
F.
Reduce damage to public and private property resulting from flooding
waters.
The Floodplain District is herein established as an overlay
district. The District includes all special flood hazard areas designated
on the Town of Swansea Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) issued by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the administration
of the NFIP dated July 7, 2009, and July 16, 2014, as Zones A, AE,
VE, which indicate the 100-year regulatory floodplain. The map panels
of the Bristol County FIRM that are wholly or partially within the
Town of Swansea are panel numbers 250005C0229F, 25005C0233F, 25005C0241F,
25005C0242F and 25005C0243F, dated July 7, 2009; and panel numbers
25005C0214G, 25005C0218G, 25005C0219G, 25005C0238G, 25005C0239G, 25005C0244G,
25005C0307G, 25005C0326G, 25005C0327G, 25005C0328G, 25005C0329G, 25005C0331G,
and 25005C0332G dated July 16, 2014. The exact boundaries of the district
may be defined by the 100-year base flood elevation shown on the FIRM
and further defined by the Flood Insurance Study Booklet. The FIRM
and Flood Insurance Study booklet are incorporated herein by reference.
A.
Floodway Data. In Zone AE, along watercourses that have not had a
regulatory floodway designated, the best available Federal, State,
local or other floodway data shall be used to prohibit encroachments
in floodways which would result in any increase in flood levels within
the community during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.
B.
Base Flood Elevation Data. Base flood elevation data is required
for subdivision proposals or other developments greater than 50 lots
or five acres, whichever is the lesser, within unnumbered A Zones.
The following shall be notified, in a riverine situation, of
any alteration or relocation of a watercourse:
A.
The Floodplain District is established as an overlay district to
all other districts. All development in the district, including structural
and non-structural activities, whether permitted by right or by special
permit must be in compliance with MGL c. 131, § 40 and with
the following:
(1)
Section of the Massachusetts State Building Code which addresses
floodplain and coastal high hazard.
(2)
Wetlands Protection Regulations, Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP) (currently 310 CMR 10.00).
(5)
Minimum Requirements for the Subsurface Disposal of Sanitary
Sewage, DEP (currently 310 CMR 15, Title 5).
B.
Any variances from the provisions and requirements of the above referenced
state regulations may only be granted in accordance with the required
variance procedures of these state regulations.
A.
Encroachments are prohibited in the regulatory floodway which would
result in any increase in flood levels within the community during
the occurrence of the base flood discharge. All new construction within
Zone VE must be located landward of the reach of mean high tide.
