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The Land Development Code Section 801.3 Stormwater Management Standards only requires the engineering study be based on a twenty-five-year frequency twenty-four-hour duration storm for new development. This is discharge, sewers and major drainage channels to accommodate runoff and internal and on-site drainage facilities. This is consistent with requirements of Chapters 62-4, 62-5 and 62-40 of the Florida Administrative Code. In the 100-year floodplain, if fill used, it must be compensated (add 1 cup must remove 1 cup elsewhere in the 100-year floodplain above the seasonal high-water table).

This is another instance where only meeting the state standards is inadequate. Debby was a better than 100-year storm event.