Flood economic and risk analyses

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=185 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="David Ford Consulting Engineers"><U><B><IMG SRC="0d058960.png" border=0 width="88" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> <div>    <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > </FONT></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="4" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="156" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#FFFFFF" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 27 WIDTH="146"><div> David Ford Consulting Engineers, Inc.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 27 ><NOBR><div> 2015 J Street, Suite 200</div> <div> Sacramento, CA 95811</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 27 WIDTH="146"><div> tel: 916.447.8779</div> <div> fax: 916.447.8780</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 27 WIDTH="146"><div> <A HREF="mailto:support@ford-consulting.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:support@ford-consulting.com"><U>support@ford-consulting.com</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div>    </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="David Ford Consulting Engineers"><U>Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id461.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About us"><U>About us</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="hydrologic_engineering.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hydrologic engineering"><U>Hydrologic engineering</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="water_resource_planning.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Water resource planning"><U>Water resource planning</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="flood_economic_and_risk_analyses.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Flood economic and risk analyses"><U>Flood economic/risk analyses</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="flood_warning.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Flood warning"><U>Flood warning</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="decision_support_system_development.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Decision support system development"><U>Decision support systems</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=40 BGCOLOR="#3366CC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="14400980ezthpx.png"> <div> <B>Flood economic and risk analyses</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=440 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="06c00962egerdp.png"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="550" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 353 WIDTH="540"><div> <IMG SRC="276405b0.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="347" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 BGCOLOR=#CC0000 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Flood economic and risk analyses services</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 300 WIDTH="540"><div> David Ford Consulting Engineers, Inc. has successfully completed flood economic and risk analyses to support applications for California Proposition 1E funding and to support applications for cost reimbursement from the Corps of Engineers for local sponsors. These studies typically include:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Working with local land-use management and local, state, and federal flood management agencies to establish evaluation conditions. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Using GIS tools to develop spatially-referenced structure inventories.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Using the latest computer models and tools to assess inundation damage and expected annual damage.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Considering other damage and cost due to flooding in addition to typical property damage. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Assessing flood risk.</div> <div> Many of the studies completed by Ford have not fit the "text book case." We have developed innovative approaches to address real-world problems.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 BGCOLOR=#3366CC HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Flood economic and risk analyses portfolio</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 708 WIDTH="540"><div> Ford has recently completed risk analyses in the following watershed areas:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Yuba-Feather system for TRLIA in support of the Yuba-Feather supplemental flood control project, Phase IV</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">City of St. Helena in support of local flood control measures</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">North area of Sacramento for SAFCA North Area local project</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Strong and Chicken Ranch sloughs for Sacramento County and USACE, Sacramento District</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Dry/Robla Creek for SAFCA</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Natomas in Sacramento County for SAFCA</div> <div> In addition, Ford staff has prepared the HEC-FIA user's manual and the USACE's manual on risk-based analysis. Ford staff members are expert users of the Corps' HEC-FDA software; this is the standard of practice for economic and risk analysis in which uncertainty is to be incorporated in the analysis. In many cases, we have worked cooperatively with HEC staff to find "work arounds" for technical complexities in studies.</div> <div> Several project descriptions are available below:</div> <div> <A HREF="yuba_feather_supplemental_flood_control_project.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="YubaFeather Supplemental flood control p"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Yuba-Feather Supplemental flood control project</U></A><A HREF="yuba_feather_supplemental_flood_control_project.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="YubaFeather Supplemental flood control p"><U>, Phase IV</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id473.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Uncertainty analysis tool for HEC1 and H"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Uncertainty analysis tool for HEC-1 and HEC-RAS</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="value_of_usgs_streamgaging_program.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Value of USGS streamgaging program"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Value of USGS streamgaging program</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id483.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="St. Helena expected annual damage"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">St. Helena expected annual damage</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id478.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Enhanced flood response and emergency pr"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Enhanced flood response and emergency preparedness initial project</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="san_luis_reservoir_low_point_analysis.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="San Luis Reservoir lowpoint analysis"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">San Luis Reservoir low-point analysis</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="yuba_feather_supplemental_flood_control_project1e2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="YubaFeather supplemental flood control p"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Yuba-Feather supplemental flood control project</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="significance_of_value.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Data collection for flood warning: Signi"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Data collection component configuration for flood warning: Significance of value</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id484.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="North area levee project benefit evaluat"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">North area levee project benefit evaluation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id472.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Strong and Chicken Ranch Sloughs, Califo"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Strong and Chicken Ranch Sloughs, California feasibility study: Phase I</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="dry_robla_creek_levee_improvements.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Riskbenefitcost of SAFCAs Dry/Robla Cree"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Risk-benefit-cost of SAFCA's Dry/Robla Creek levee improvements</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="risk_analysis__sacramento_levees.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Risk analysis: Sacramento levees"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Risk analysis: Sacramento levees</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="interior_drainage_analysis__sacramento.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Interior drainage analysis: Sacramento"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Interior drainage analysis: Sacramento</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="hec_fia_user_s_manual.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HECFIA users manual"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">HEC-FIA user's manual</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="corps__manual_on_risk_based_analysis.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corps manual on riskbased analysis"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Corps' manual on risk-based analysis</U></A></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="540"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="540" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>