And the city confirmed in a written statement that FEMA’s changes to the 100-year floodplain will go into effect in December 2018: “On the main island, this change primarily affects parcels in the Fernside Boulevard area on the East End,” said Alameda city engineer Scott Wikstrom. Municipalities like Alameda are required to accept FEMA’s finalized flood maps to stay eligible for the National Flood Insurance Program, which allows local property owners to access federally managed flood insurance. “It means the general aviation section of the airport would likely flood during a major weather event,” Bernardo said, noting private aircraft operators, aircraft maintenance services, and fixed-base operators that provide fueling, hangar, and ground-handling services will need to adjust their insurance. Robert Bernardo, communications manager for the Port of Oakland, said FEMA’s finalized map shows the airport’s north field, where private airplanes are based, as subject to flooding. “There were no adjustments,” said Paul Beusterien, vice president of the Community of Harbor Bay Isle Homeowners Association, which represents 20 residential neighborhoods on Bay Farm Island. And when the Port of Oakland, which owns Oakland International Airport, appealed FEMA’s preliminary maps, the city supported the port’s appeal - all to no avail the preliminary and finalized versions of FEMA’s flood maps are pretty much identical. Still, when FEMA released a preliminary version of its flood insurance rate maps in 2015, some residents resisted the notion that Alameda was at risk of flooding. FEMA officials note that in studying flood hazards throughout the Bay Area, they’ve found that the city of Alameda and Oakland International Airport face some of the most serious threats in the region: Both areas have low-laying shorelines and development built on fill, which puts them at extra risk of flooding, as sea levels rise, fill sinks, and storms intensify. 21, 2018, will receive significantly discounted rates. The good news? FEMA says property owners in the 100-year floodplain who buy flood insurance before Dec. It engulfs areas along Eastshore and Fernside homes along Ballena Boulevard, Cola Ballena, and Tideway near Encinal High School businesses near the Posey and Webster tubes and Mariner Square Drive businesses near the Main Street Ferry and much of Alameda Point. It encompasses several hundred homes around the Bay Farm Island lagoons, the Chuck Corica Golf Course, Doolittle Drive, and Oakland International Airport. This newly identified floodplain looks like a brilliantly colored ribbon as it nips and engulfs 2,000 parcels across Alameda’s shorelines, along with sections of the Oakland International Airport. FEMA officials explained that parcels within the 100-year floodplain have a 1 percent chance of flooding in any given year.
21, 2018, and show that 2,000 parcels of land in Alameda fall within a special flood hazard zone known as a 100-year floodplain. The reminder came shortly after the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it had finalized flood maps that go into effect on Dec. This summer, as smoke from California wildfires drifted through the Bay Area, officials with the city of Alameda sent notices to certain property owners to remind them to buy flood insurance. Meanwhile, getting insurance, curbing greenhouse emissions, and shoring up vulnerable infrastructure are becoming matters of social justice. FEMA has finalized its flood zone maps for Alameda, so residents will have to get serious about rising tides.
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