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<br />) <br /> <br />land use, holding public meetings, reviewing local land use plans, and by <br /> <br />consulting planners and other local officials, business leaders, and <br /> <br />citizens' groups. <br /> <br />The descriptions of small drainage basins may cover the extent of <br /> <br />flooding, land use, and business activities within the entire basin, For <br /> <br />larger drainage basins, this description may be limited to the immediate <br /> <br />area experiencing flooding problems, and nearby areas that are alternative <br /> <br /> <br />sites for activities that are currently located in the floodplain. This <br /> <br /> <br />description should include a history of the economic and social effects of <br /> <br /> <br />flooding on the area, Dates, peak discharge, and peak stages of major <br /> <br />flooding events should be given. When the information is available, the <br /> <br />economic costs and categories of damages, as well as the number of deaths <br /> <br />and injuries, should be noted, Information on flood events can be <br /> <br />obtained from the National Weather Service, Corps emergency operations <br /> <br />offices, and state and local emergency preparedness offices, Further <br /> <br />information and contacts can be obtained from newspaper articles, <br /> <br />A critical part of defining the existing "without" condition is a <br /> <br />proper evaluation of the degree of protection that existing flood <br /> <br />protection can be expected to provide. The assessment involves two major <br /> <br />considerations: <br /> <br />1) The first consideration is the level of protection that existing <br /> <br />flood control works actually provide. In the case of an existing levee, <br /> <br />design engineers will determine how much of the levee height is freeboard, <br /> <br />Freeboard is the zone between the top of the levee and the design height, <br /> <br />') <br /> <br />v-s <br />