Born from a flood. Built to stop the next one.
HydroDam is a woman-owned, family-run flood-protection company based in Clearwater, Florida, specializing in custom aluminum flood barriers for residential, commercial, and municipal use. We started for the simplest reason there is: after the 2024 storm seasons, our founding family needed a reliable, trustworthy way to keep water out of their own flood-zone home, and sandbags weren't it.

Our mission
To protect homes and businesses with reliable, easy-to-install flood barrier systems designed for real-world conditions, not lab conditions. Every system is fabricated at our Clearwater shop to the exact dimensions of your openings, then backed by on-site assessment, professional installation, and ongoing support.
- Legal name
- Hydro Dam LLC
- Founded
- 2024
- Florida contractor license
- #CBC1269077
- Held by an affiliated licensed contractor. Permitting is referred to our licensed affiliate.
- Fabrication shop
- 6140 Ulmerton Rd, Clearwater, FL 33760
- Registered trademark
- HYDRO DAM® · U.S. Reg. No. 8,163,693

“Fortifying our community, one barrier at a time.”
Madeline Scribner
Founder & CEO
FL Contractor License #CBC1269077
Madeline started HydroDam for a blunt reason: after major storms, property owners get quoted inflated prices and long lead times at exactly the moment they can least afford either.
She knows because she lived it. Madeline is a St. Petersburg resident whose own properties have flooded more than once, and after the repeat flooding she went looking for a protection system that was durable, actually worked, and didn't price out a normal homeowner or business. The search was for her own doors and garages. Then friends, family, and neighbors started asking for help with theirs, and HydroDam became a company.
Madeline owns and runs the business. She spent more than a decade in business development and operations before this, and paired that background with hands-on product research to build HydroDam around the customer rather than the catalog.
The product is aluminum flood barrier systems for homes and commercial properties facing storm surge, heavy rain, and rising water. They're built to deploy easily and to look like part of the building when they're stowed.
Flood protection shouldn't feel overwhelming. From the first consultation through installation and training, the process stays hands-on and plainly explained, and every system is specced to the actual property rather than a stock size. The goal is simple: families and businesses that go into the next storm season prepared.
Four commitments, no exceptions.
Effective
Engineered to keep water out, shop-tested under real water, and built to FEMA dry-floodproofing design guidance.
Affordable
A one-time investment that costs a fraction of a single flood cleanup.
Easy to deploy
Light planks, guided posts, under 10 minutes, no crew required.
Built to last
6063-T6 aluminum that survives storm after storm after storm.
Protecting all of Tampa Bay.
We design and install for home entry points, multi-family units, and commercial offices across Pinellas County and the greater Tampa Bay area.