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Bannockburn is a small, wooded village in southeastern Lake County near the Des Plaines River and its tributaries. Flood exposure is limited to low-lying parcels along those channels, so an Elevation Certificate is relevant chiefly for that subset.
A FEMA Elevation Certificate documents your building’s elevation relative to the Base Flood Elevation on the FEMA flood map. Insurers use it to rate flood policies and communities use it to confirm floodplain compliance; it can also support a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) to remove a structure from a flood zone.
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Bannockburn has about 1,013 residents in Moraine Township, part of Lake County, whose seat is Waukegan. Where Des Plaines River tributaries and wetlands create mapped floodplain, a licensed surveyor’s Elevation Certificate documents a structure’s lowest-floor elevation relative to the Base Flood Elevation. That record enables accurate flood-insurance rating, supports floodplain-development permits, and can back a Letter of Map Amendment. Bannockburn survey documents are recorded through the Recording Division of the Lake County Clerk’s Office.
Flood exposure is limited to parcels near the village’s streams and wetlands; most of the wooded community sits outside mapped flood hazard areas.
To document a building’s elevation against the Base Flood Elevation for insurance rating, floodplain-permit compliance, and Letter of Map Amendment support.
A licensed professional land surveyor measures and certifies the elevations on the FEMA form.
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