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Palos Park sits in Palos and Lemont townships amid the Palos forest preserves in southwest Cook County, near the Calumet Sag Channel drainage where creeks and low ground create pockets of mapped floodplain. For those parcels, a FEMA Elevation Certificate documents a building’s floor elevation against the Base Flood Elevation for insurance and permitting.
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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Palos Park is a wooded southwest-suburban village of about 4,900 residents across the Palos and Lemont townships of Cook County, surrounded by extensive forest preserves. Its drainage moves toward the Calumet Sag Channel and the Calumet River system managed by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD). The area’s rolling, heavily wooded terrain places much of the village on higher ground, so Special Flood Hazard Areas follow creek corridors and low-lying drainage rather than most neighborhoods. Owners in mapped zones rely on the certificate for the surveyed elevations an insurer uses to rate coverage, for compliance with Palos Park’s floodplain permits, and for the basis of a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) when a structure is documented above the Base Flood Elevation.
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The higher, rolling ground helps, but low-lying land near creeks and the Cal-Sag drainage still falls inside mapped flood zones, where an Elevation Certificate applies.
Order an Elevation Certificate. If it shows your lowest floor is above the Base Flood Elevation, it supports a LOMA petition to amend the map for your structure.
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