I got hired to do pre/post construction fema elevation certificate for the pool equipment on a new backyard swimming pool.?ÿ Newer subdivision house was built in 1999. The property is half in zone AE and half in X. So it's not very close to the flooding source. I went out there and set the benchmark at BFE + 1' (which I computed from the profile) and we are surprised that it ended up being 4 feet above grade. At this level their house would be completely flooded if a 100 year event occurred and the pool equipment would be the least of their worries.?ÿ Now I am concerned that I have made a mistake somehow in computing the BFE. It seems that this would have been addressed when the neighborhood was built not that long ago
Don't use your computed BFE, but the BFE shown on the FIRM.?ÿ If no BFE has been established by FEMA, leave the box blank.?ÿ You may be asked to provide cross-sections adequate to create a HEC-RAS model and submit that model to FEMA for consideration to update their flood study of the area.
An EC for a pool seems very odd to me.?ÿ What's the point of that??ÿ ?ÿThe equipment doesn't service the building, which I thought was the whole reason for EC's to begin with.?ÿ (buildings in flood areas)?ÿ?ÿ