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15. "Flood Insurance Study" means the official report provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that includes flood profiles, the flood boundary-floodway map, and the water surface elevation of the base flood. 16. "Floodplain" means an area adjacent to a watercourse, which area is subject to flooding as the result of the occurrence of the 1 DO-year flood and which area thus is so adverse to past, current, or foreseeable construction or land use as to constitute a significant hazard to publiC health and safety or to property. 17. "Flood proofing" means a combination of structural provisions, changes, or adjustments to properties and structures subject to flooding primarily for the reduction or elimination of flood damages to properties, water and sanitary facilities, structures, and contents of buildings in a flood hazard area. 18. "Flood profile" means a graph or a longitudinal profile showing the relationship of the water surface elevation of a flood event to location along a stream or river. 19. "Flood protection elevation" means an elevation two feet above the elevation or flood profile of the hundred-year flood under existing channel and floodplain conditions. It is two feet above the elevation of the flood for the flood regulatory district as shown on the FIRM map in the office of the city engineer. 20. "Flood regulatory district" means that portion of the floodplain subject to inundation by the hundred-year flood. 21 . "Flood stage" means the height or elevation of a flood as referred to some datum. For purposes other than those of this chapter, the term is commonly used to refer to the elevation at which a stream will overtop its normal stage banks. 22. "Hundred-year flood" is one that has a frequency of occurrence of one hundred years, determined from an analysis of floods on a particular watercourse and other watercourses in the same general region. It has about a one percent chance of occurring in any given year. 4