Services – Flood Prevention

Catskill Construction Consultants is qualified to assess flooding situations and to provide solutions to potential flooding. Among our effective prevention or remediation techniques used for flood control are the installation of rock berms, rock rip-raps, sandbags, maintaining normal slopes with vegetation. Other tactics are: application of soil cements on steeper slopes and construction or expansion of drainage channels. Additional and advanced methods include levees, dikes, dams, retention or detention basins. After the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005, some areas prefer not to have levees as flood controls, opting instead for improvement of the community’s drainage structures with detention basins.