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Riverwoods takes its character from the Des Plaines River, which winds through the heavily wooded village in southeastern Lake County. Parcels near the river fall within FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas where an Elevation Certificate is most valuable.
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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Riverwoods is home to about 3,790 residents in Vernon Township (also West Deerfield Township), part of Lake County, whose seat is Waukegan. The Des Plaines River runs through the village, so 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. Riverwoods records along the Des Plaines River are entered through the Recording Division of the Lake County Clerk’s Office.
The river winds through Riverwoods and creates a mapped floodplain, so riverside parcels commonly need an Elevation Certificate for insurance and permitting.
It is the elevation floodwater is expected to reach in the 1%-annual-chance flood, which the certificate compares to your building’s floor.
When it shows the structure sits above the Base Flood Elevation, its data supports a Letter of Map Amendment.
Pi Surveying provides the full range of land surveying services for Riverwoods property owners and builders:
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Pi Surveying, located in Oak Brook, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, is a professional land surveying design firm that provides land surveys for both the private and commercial sector.