CANYON SURVEYS UNDER WAY FOR FEMA PLANS.Byline: Judy O'Rourke Special to the Daily News SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Local field surveys under way in four canyon areas of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. are part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's nationwide plan to update floodplain floodplain, level land along the course of a river formed by the deposition of sediment during periodic floods. Floodplains contain such features as levees, backswamps, delta plains, and oxbow lakes. boundary maps. Insurance companies rely on the maps to set flood insurance rates. ``We're re-studying some of the floodplain areas in the valley to update our flood insurance rate maps,'' said Christina Monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. Le beau monde fashionable society. See Beau monde. Demi monde See Demimonde. , an assistant engineer with the city. FEMA FEMA, n.pr See Federal Emergency Management Agency. has hired consultants to perform field studies, create models and produce new maps. Much development has occurred in the Santa Clarita Valley since the maps were last revised in 1989. The maps help determine whether property owners in certain areas need flood insurance. Consultants are working with city officials to survey Sand, Mint, Iron and Placerita canyons, Monde said. Other areas could be surveyed in the future, but Monde declined to list them. She said the scope of the work is narrow. ``It is for purposes of accurately remapping, not because we're considering proposed improvements,'' such as bridges, she said. Engineers from Omaha, Neb.-based HDR (1) (High Data Rate) A wireless data technology from QUALCOMM that provides up to a 2.4 Mbps data rate in a standard 1.25MHz CDMA voice channel. HDR can be used to enhance data capabilities in existing cdmaOne networks or in stand-alone data networks. , began a field study Thursday along Placerita Creek. HDR Vice President Lee Fredericksen said he hopes the preliminary work will be finished in six months. A 30-day community review period and a 90-day appeal period would follow before the results are finalized. Judy O'Rourke, (661) 257-5255 judy.orourke(at)dailynews.com |
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