Floodway. The channel of a watercourse and the adjacent land areas that are necessary to be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot. [Adapted from Chapter 31 of Nebraska Statutes]. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides further clarification that a floodway is the central portion of a riverine floodplain needed to carry the deeper, faster moving water.
Floodway. The stream channel and adjacent overbank areas required to carry and safely discharge the 100 year flood without increasing flood levels more than one foot above natural flood levels. Floodway Encroachment Limits. The lines marking the limits of floodways on official federal, state and local floodplain maps. Floodway Fringe. The area adjoining a watercourse which, although not lying within a floodway, has been or may hereafter be covered by a 100 year flood.
Floodway the identified portion of the Regulated Flood Hazard Area and the channel and the areas adjoining the channel that are reasonably required to carry the discharge of the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation by more than one half (½) foot.
