Stormwater and Floodplain Management
Successful stormwater management is an art that combines experience and know how with the savvy to manage policy and technical issues with local government and regional planning commissions. EMH&T possesses every ingredient in good measure.
Stormwater Master Planning
- * Stormwater Management Facilities Evaluation
- * Hydraulic Modeling and Capacity Analysis
- * Capital Improvement Planning
- * Low Impact Development Planning
Design of Stormwater Management Facilities
- * Detention basins
- * Storm Sewer Systems
- * Water-quality best management practices (e.g., bioretention basins, stormwater wetlands, enhanced swales, etc.)
- * Permeable Pavements
Hydrologic and Hydraulic Computer Modeling
- * HEC-RAS, GEO-RAS, HEC-1, HEC-2, HY-8, and HEC-HMS
- * TR-55, TR-20 and WSP-2
- * SWMM and its various modules
- * Pondpack, version 10.0
- * HydroCad v7.1
- * Low Impact Development Design Tools
- * RiverMorph, version 4.0
Municipal Stormwater Program Planning
- * NPDES Phase II Compliance Assessments & Program Planning
- * Ordinance/Resolution Drafting
- * Utility Implementation
- * City-wide Impervious Area Studies
- * Capital Improvement Project Prioritization
Stormwater Utility Rate Studies
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans
Floodplain Management and Estimation of Floodplain Limits
- * Flood Hazard Studies
- * FEMA Map Revisions (CLOMR, LOMR, LOMA, LOMR-F)
- * Floodplain Management Policy Development
Dam Safety Analysis
- * ODNR Permitting & Design of Small Dams
- * Operations & Maintenance and Emergency Action Plans
Environmental Restoration/Enhancement Study and Design
- * Stream Restoration and buffers; Wetland Mitigation
