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1.312 Restricting uses which are particularly susceptible to flood damage, so as to alleviate hardship and eliminate demands for public ex- penditures for relief and protection. 1.313 Requiring permitted flood plain uses, including public facili- ties which serve such uses~, to be protected against floods by providing flood proofing and general flood protection at the time of initial construc- tion. 1.32 To alert flood plan occupants or potential occupants to flood hazards, and damages, which may result from their own, or other, land use and which is or may be undertaken without full realization of the danger by: 1.321 Regulating the manner in which structures designed for human occupancy may be constructE~d. 1.322 Regulating the method of construction of water supply, sani- tation systems and other utilities, so as to prevent disease, contamination and unsanitary conditions. 1.323 Delineating and describing areas that could be inundated by floods so as to protect individuals from purchasing flood plain lands for purposes which are not in fact suitable. 1.33 To protect the public from the burden of avoidable financial expen- ditures for flood control and relief by regulating all uses within the flood plain areas so as to produce a method of construction and a pattern of development which will minimize the probability of damage to property and loss of life or injury to the inhabitants of the flood hazard areas. 1.34 To protect the stora'ge capacity of flood plains and to assure re- tention of sufficient floodway area to convey flood flows which can reason- ably be expected to occur by: 1.341 Regulating filling, dumping, dredging and alteration of channels by deepening, widening, or relocating. 1.342 Prohibiting unnecessary and damage-creating encroachments. -2-