Flood Protection
The Flood Protection Program responds to requests from municipalities, state and federal legislators, county and state government officials, and private residents to investigate flood problems within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and determine the feasibility of providing a solution to these flood problems. The program considers long term structural solutions to a community's flood problem by evaluating the magnitude and frequency of flooding, performing a hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, evaluating flood protection alternatives, estimating construction costs, assessing environmental impacts, performing an economic analysis, determining local sponsor responsibilities, and designing and constructing the project. Types of projects include stormwater detention facilities, concrete channels, concrete floodwalls, compacted earth levees, channel improvements or a combination of a number of these types of alternatives. The main objective of the program is to prevent property damage and the possibility of loss of life.
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