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<br />5.0 INSURANCE APPLICATION <br /> <br />To establish actuarial insurance rates, data from the engineering study <br />must be transformed into flood insurance criteria. This process in- <br />cludes the determination of reachesr Flood Hazard Factors, and flood <br />insurance zone designations for each flooding source studied in detail <br />affecting the unincorporated areas of Otero County. <br /> <br />5.1 Reach Determinations <br /> <br />Reaches are defined as sections of flood plain that have rela- <br />tively the same flood hazard, based on the average weighted dif- <br />ference in water-surface elevations between the 10- and 100-year <br />floods. This difference may not have a variation greater than <br />that indicated in the following table for more than 20 percent of <br />the reach: <br /> <br />Average Difference Between <br />10- and 100-Year Floods <br /> <br />Variation <br /> <br />Less than 2 feet <br />2 to 7 feet <br />7.1 to 12 feet <br />More than 12 feet <br /> <br />0.5 foot <br />1. 0 foot <br />2.0 feet <br />3.0 feet <br /> <br />The locations of the reaches determined for the flooding sources <br />of Otero County are shown on the Flood Profiles (Exhibit 1) and <br />summarized in Table 4. <br /> <br />5.2 Flood Hazard Factors <br /> <br />The Flood Hazard Factor (FHF) is used to establish relationships <br />between depth and frequency of flooding in any reach. This rela- <br />tionship is then used with depth-damage relationships for various <br />classes of structures to establish actuarial insurance rate tables. <br /> <br />The FHF for a reach is the average weighted difference between the <br />10- and 100-year flood water-surface elevations rounded to the <br />nearest one-half foot, multiplied by 10, and shown as a three- <br />digit code. For example, if the difference between water-surface <br />elevations of the 10- and lOO-year floods is 0.7 foot, the FHF is <br />005; if the difference is 1.4 feetr the FHF is 015; if the differ- <br />ence is 5.0 feet, the FHF is 050. When the difference between the <br />10- and 100-year flood water-surface elevations is greater than <br />10.0 feetr it is rounded to the nearest whole foot. <br /> <br />5.3 Flood Insurance Zones <br /> <br />Flood insurance zones and zone numbers are assigned based on the <br />type of flood hazard and the FHF, respectively. A unique zone <br /> <br />16 <br />