Flood economic and risk analyses services
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:
Working with local land-use management and local, state, and federal flood management agencies to establish evaluation conditions.
Using GIS tools to develop spatially-referenced structure inventories.
Using the latest computer models and tools to assess inundation damage and expected annual damage.
Considering other damage and cost due to flooding in addition to typical property damage.
Assessing flood risk.
Many of the studies completed by Ford have not fit the "text book case." We have developed innovative approaches to address real-world problems.
Flood economic and risk analyses portfolio
Ford has recently completed risk analyses in the following watershed areas:
Yuba-Feather system for TRLIA in support of the Yuba-Feather supplemental flood control project, Phase IV
City of St. Helena in support of local flood control measures
North area of Sacramento for SAFCA North Area local project
Strong and Chicken Ranch sloughs for Sacramento County and USACE, Sacramento District
Dry/Robla Creek for SAFCA
Natomas in Sacramento County for SAFCA
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.
Several project descriptions are available below: