Floodplain Management and FEMA Flood Hazard Mapping
Balance Hydrologics has participated in a large number of floodplain management projects addressing a range of issues from land development encroachments to large scale riparian restorations. Our diverse professional backgrounds in geomorphology, hydraulic/hydrologic modeling, and design level engineering allows for holistic and site specific approaches to a wide range of floodplain management issues. Balance's team of engineers also routinely provide floodplain mapping revisions through FEMA including CLOMR, LOMR, CLOMA, and LOMA applications.

Two-dimensional hydraulic model results, Lower Carmel River,
Monterey County, California

FEMA floodway map revision, Lower Refugio Creek,
City of Hercules, California