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Location
Northeast Indiana
(Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Noble & Steuben Counties)
Client Reference
Maumee River Basin Commission
Time Period
1993 - 1995 |
Project Description
CBBEL staff are lead consultant for the Maumee River Basin Commission,
including the development of its Flood Control Master Plan. The project
involved intensive coordination between Federal, State, and local
governments in an environmentally sensitive area and required careful
assessment of several types of structural as well as non-structural
alternative solutions. Major recommendations of the study included the
adoption of uniform floodplain, stormwater, and erosion control ordinances
in the Basin, buyout and floodproofing of more than 1,250 residential and
non-residential structures, protection of two study reaches by means of
levees and floodwalls, and conversion of several acres of flooded
agricultural lands from the agricultural land use to woodland, wetland,
and park corridors. The Master Plan which fostered a broad consensus among
various governmental agencies, agricultural interests, and environmental
groups was unanimously approved in May 1995 and is currently in the
implementation phase. |
