I am in the process of designing a commercial develoment that involves the re-alignment of a public street. The roadway has 2 culverts under it. The drainage through these 2 culverts is being re-routed and the owner wants to abandon the culverts. The culverts now are approximately 20' in the...
I've had a developer approach me about extending a subdivision into a FEMA flood plain. Their thoughts and mine would be to raise the elevation of the ground to above the base flood elevation. We have done this is the past with relatively small sites. However, the thing that concerns me is the...
