Coastal and Watershed Management

ARM navigates the waters of Coastal & Watershed Management.

Our Coastal and Watershed Management (CWM) Practice Area has organically evolved as a result of increased and acknowledged climate change, ever-changing flood hazards and mapping, continued urbanization / development of flood prone areas, increasing regulatory restrictions associated with resource management and stormwater management, as well as America’s continually degrading infrastructure (especially from a flood control structure perspective).

ARM's CWM team is accustomed to effectively managing and progressing complex multi-disciplinary projects within our purview. We pride ourselves on educating our clients, championing their goals and objectives, and collectively making informed critical decisions during project development. Our truly unique client servicing approach fosters lasting relationships and assures successful outcomes.

Coastal / Marine Engineering
- Elevation uplift/ protection via both green and gray engineering applications
- Flood studies and assessments
- Development due diligence/ support
- Sediment studies
- Retaining walls, bulkheads, and dock design
Geotechnical Services
- Soil and sediment evaluation and testing
- Geophysical evaluations
- Marine foundation system design
Stormwater Management
- Water quality monitoring
- MS4 & NPDES permit compliance services
- Green Infrastructure Design
Natural System Design
- Site feasibility studies
- Regulatory compliance & environmental permitting (State and Federal)
- Stream restoration
- Environmental mitigation banking design and approval
- Dam Removal Projects
Flood Control Facilities Compliance & Design
- Regular and Formal Dam Inspections
- Creation or updates to Emergency Action and Operation and Maintenance Plans
- Regulatory Compliance
- Hazard Classification
- Dam Improvement Projects (to bring facilities into compliance)
- Pursuit of Grants and Loans

Featured Projects

Kevin M. Yezdimer, P.E.

Director - Coastal & Watershed Management

Mr. Yezdimer has fifteen (15) years of varied and progressive Geoscience and Civil Engineering work experience inclusive of construction cost estimating, dam compliance services, flood control system inspections, varied design experience (i.e., dams, retaining walls, shoreline protection, structural design of concrete structures, and pavement), and the performance of a relatively wide variety of geotechnical evaluations/ analyses (i.e., stability, seepage, seismic, foundation-type designs), stormwater management evaluations, as well as routinely manages unique “one-off” type geoscience projects.