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Summit sits in Lyons and Stickney townships along the Des Plaines River and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in southwest Cook County, an area with real riverine and canal-adjacent flood exposure. A FEMA Elevation Certificate is central here, documenting a building’s floor elevation against the Base Flood Elevation.
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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The village of Summit, about 11,200 residents in Lyons and Stickney townships, lies in southwest Cook County along the Des Plaines River and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. These waterways, part of the drainage system overseen by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD), create Special Flood Hazard Areas through the low-lying parts of the village. Because Summit sits directly along the river and canal corridor, flood exposure here is more pronounced than in many inland suburbs. Affected owners use the certificate for the surveyed elevations an insurer needs, for confirmation of compliance with Summit’s floodplain-permit requirements, and as the survey basis for a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) once a structure is documented above the Base Flood Elevation.
Official resources for Summit property owners
The village sits along the Des Plaines River and the Sanitary and Ship Canal, so low-lying properties near those corridors face genuine mapped flood exposure.
The surveyor needs access to the building’s lowest floor, including any basement or crawlspace, to measure the elevations that go on the FEMA form.
If the survey shows your lowest floor sits above the Base Flood Elevation, that data supports a LOMA application to FEMA to amend the map for your structure.
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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.