Flood Hazard Assessment and Flood Mapping

Approach

Making quality flood maps requires a specialized team of trained professionals who have expertise to understand how much water could be expected, how it will move across the floodplain, and how to best communicate this to engineers, planners, emergency responders, and the public.  

Our team brings together hydrologists, hydraulic modellers, and GIS specialists to build maps for your community that can be relied on for your engineering and planning decisions. Our maps are based on federal guidelines and meet provincial specifications in BC (heck, they should, we wrote them). But, we also draw on international best and leading practice to source new modelling methods, new ways to present information on static maps, as well as all sorts of fun interactive online techniques to communicate what is both scary and complicated information.

Finally, we produce reporting that provides the technical details – so that future consultants and technical experts can quickly pick up the work – as well as concise and easily-understandable information for decision-makers and the public.

Our team, sometimes working with other experts (surveyors, geomorphologists), can make detailed hazard assessment maps for coastal and riverine environments. We also make base level hazard assessment and hazard identification maps for high-level planning.  At Ebbwater, because we have decades of experience making maps, we also act as client engineers for mapping projects, stewarding First Nation and Local governments through their mapping projects from scoping, through procurement, and technical review of modelling and reporting deliverables.