The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Division of Watershed Stewardship, hereby gives notice of Sussex County’s (Community No. 100029) intent to revise the flood hazard information, along Bundicks Branch generally located between Beaver Dam Road and Cool Spring Road/County Road 290 and along Tributary to Bundicks Branch from the confluence with Bundicks Branch to Dairy Farm Road. Specifically, the flood hazard information shall be revised along Bundicks Branch from the confluence with Love Creek to a point approximately 4,940 feet upstream of Cool Spring Road. The flood hazard information for Tributary to Bundicks Branch shall be revised from the confluence with Bundicks Branch to a point approximately just downstream of Dairy Farm Road.

As a result of the revision, the 1% annual chance water-surface elevations shall be established along Bundicks Branch and Tributary to Bundicks Branch, and the 1% annual chance floodplain shall widen and narrow within the area of revision for both Bundicks Branch and Tributary to Bundicks Branch.

Maps and detailed analysis of the revision can be reviewed at the Department of Natural Resources Environmental Control, Division of Watershed Stewardship at 285 Beiser Boulevard, Suite 102, Dover, DE 19904. Interested persons may call DNREC Division of Watershed Stewardship – Joseph Faries, PE at 302-739-9921 for additional information from 8 AM to 4PM for 4 weeks following this notice.

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