How To Find Your Home On FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps

How To Find Your Home On FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps Posted on July 28, 2017 by LaughlinSurveyor What are FEMA flood maps? FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) or just Flood Maps are provided after a flood risk assessment has been completed or updated for a community.  This study is known as a Flood Insurance Study.  The FIRM gives […]

Flooding From Excessive Rain Downstream From Earth Dams

Flooding From Excessive Rain Downstream From Earth Dams Posted on July 21, 2015 by LaughlinSurveyor The Daily Republic in South Dakota published an article that talks about an earthen dam that recently failed because of a nine-inch rainfall last 29th of July 2010. The heavy rainfall overwhelmed the dam’s capacity causing it to fail. No injury was reported on […]

How Important is Land Surveying in Today’s World?

How Important is Land Surveying in Today’s World? Posted on May 26, 2015 by LaughlinSurveyor Copyright (c) 123RF Stock Photos Most of you have probably never thought about land surveying until you needed it at some point. Many of us hear about land surveying all the time but never really give it much thought. Since an investment in land and/or a home […]