Montgomery County Comprehensive Flood Management Plan

To ensure that the County is better prepared to address flooding issues, work is underway on the development of a Comprehensive Flood Management Plan (CFMP). The CFMP is a multiyear effort designed to improve the County’s ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from flooding. The CFMP will include technical studies and policy and programmatic components.

The technical studies will involve detailed hydraulic and hydrologic modeling to characterize flood risks and vulnerabilities in selected watersheds in the County. Refer to the “Technical Studies” page for more details. This information will be used to identify flood mitigation measures that the County could implement to reduce the potential for flooding in areas that poses the greatest risk for county residents. Implementation of individual flood mitigation projects would occur through the County’s Capital Improvements Program (CIP).

The policy and programmatic efforts will examine the County’s laws, regulations, development and design standards, programs, budgets, and operations that relate to various aspects of flooding and develop recommendations for changing them. In addition, the information provided through the technical studies will be used to guide policy issues. For example, if the modeling shows a particular area is subject to potentially significant flooding under future precipitation and development conditions, the County may want to enact specific development or design standards to minimize flooding impacts to existing and new properties in that area.

Technical Studies

Learn about the methodology used to prioritize watersheds for further study.

Policy Actions

Learn how County agencies are working to increase the county's readiness to deal with flooding events.