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Discover how FloodWise™ empowers public works and utilities teams with real-time, predictive flood intelligence to protect infrastructure, optimize operations, and strengthen community resilience.
Flooding has long been one of the most disruptive and costly challenges facing communities. For public works and utilities teams, the stakes are even higher – every decision made before, during, and after a storm event directly impacts infrastructure performance, public safety, and long-term resilience. Despite advances in monitoring and modeling, many flood-related decisions remain reactive, constrained by limited forecasting resolution and delayed insight.
But what if that paradigm could change?
Having the ability to understand the precise location, depth, and duration of flooding days in advance would fundamentally reshape how to mobilize staff, protect infrastructure, and safeguard your community.
With FloodWise™, that shift is no longer theoretical. It’s operational.
A New Era of Flood Preparedness
FloodWise™ is a real-time flood forecasting and early warning system designed to bring clarity to one of the most complex challenges facing municipalities today. By delivering highly detailed, location-specific forecasts days before floodwaters arrive, it empowers teams to act earlier, plan smarter, and respond with confidence.
Beyond improved data, FloodWise™ transforms how decisions are made by turning complex forecasts into clear, actionable insight. Instead of reacting to rising water, agencies can anticipate impacts with precision, aligning resources and strategies ahead of time.
The result is a fundamental shift – from uncertainty to foresight, and from response to preparedness.
Strengthening Public Works Operations with Advanced Insight
Public works departments are responsible for maintaining the physical systems that keep communities functioning – roads, bridges, drainage networks, and stormwater infrastructure. When flooding occurs, these systems are often the first to be impacted and the most critical to restore.
FloodWise™ provides public works teams with the ability to see what’s coming before it happens, down to the street level.
Imagine being able to identify exactly which roads will be inundated, how deep the water will be, and how long it is expected to remain – enabling earlier, safer, and more coordinated action. With that level of insight, crews can be deployed before conditions deteriorate, not after. Equipment can be staged strategically, and road closures can be planned proactively rather than implemented in a crisis.
This level of foresight also enables more effective stormwater management. With advanced knowledge of incoming rainfall and system response, teams can lower retention ponds, adjust control structures, and create additional storage capacity ahead of peak conditions. These proactive actions, taken hours or even days in advance, can significantly reduce downstream flooding impacts and improve system performance during severe weather.
FloodWise™ also helps protect critical infrastructure by identifying vulnerable assets – bridges, culverts, drainage systems, and key access routes – allowing teams to prioritize protection where it matters most.
Beyond day-to-day operations, FloodWise™ enhances coordination. With clear, actionable forecasts, public works teams can communicate more effectively with emergency management, law enforcement, and leadership, ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned and informed before conditions escalate.
As a result, public works departments move away from reactive response cycles and toward a proactive, data-driven strategy that improves efficiency, reduces costs, and strengthens community safety.
Elevating Utilities Resilience Through Asset-Level Forecasting
For utilities teams, flooding presents a unique and often more severe set of risks. Water and wastewater systems rely on interconnected infrastructure – pump stations, treatment facilities, lift stations, and electrical components – that must remain operational even under extreme conditions.
A single failure can cascade into widespread service disruptions, environmental hazards, and costly recovery efforts.
FloodWise™ addresses this challenge by providing utilities teams with detailed, asset-level intelligence. Rather than broad regional forecasts, the system pinpoints exactly which facilities and components are at risk, when they will be impacted, and to what extent.
This level of visibility transforms decision-making, making it more confident, targeted, and effective.
With advance notice, utilities operators can take protective action – installing temporary barriers, securing pumps and generators, safeguarding electrical systems, and preparing facilities before floodwaters arrive.
One of the most significant benefits is the ability to reduce the risk of sanitary sewer overflows. By identifying at-risk pump stations and proactively managing system capacity, utilities can mitigate one of the most damaging and regulated consequences of flooding.
FloodWise™ also supports smarter system operations. With real-time and forecasted data, teams can adjust flows, utilize available storage, and optimize performance under stress conditions. This not only reduces immediate impacts but also improves long-term system efficiency.
Equally valuable is the platform’s ability to simulate “what-if” scenarios. Utilities teams can test different storm events, operational strategies, and infrastructure configurations before a storm ever arrives. This capability enables better planning, more informed investments, and greater confidence in decision-making.
The result is a shift from reactive maintenance to proactive resilience, where utilities are not just responding to disruptions, but actively preventing them.
Integration, Intelligence, and Continuous Awareness
What makes FloodWise™ particularly powerful is its ability to integrate seamlessly into existing workflows and systems. Whether leveraging established models such as StormWise™, SWMM, or HEC-RAS, or incorporating new data sources such as LiDAR and AI-driven mapping, the platform enhances, not replaces, current capabilities.
It operates continuously, retrieving and processing rainfall data in real time, updating forecasts, and providing users with a constantly evolving picture of flood risk. This continuous awareness ensures that decision-makers always have access to current, relevant information as conditions change.
Additionally, FloodWise™ accounts for compound flooding by integrating coastal and tidal data with rainfall-driven models. For coastal communities, this provides a more comprehensive understanding of risk, capturing the complex interactions that often drive the most severe flooding events.
All of this information is accessible through an intuitive, user-friendly interface, enabling teams to monitor conditions, analyze scenarios, and make decisions from virtually anywhere.
Redefining Preparedness for the Future
The consequences of inadequate flood forecasting are well understood – greater infrastructure damage, higher recovery costs, and increased risks to public safety. As weather patterns grow more unpredictable, the need for accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence becomes even more critical.
FloodWise™ meets that need by providing greater clarity, confidence, and control.
It enables municipalities, public works teams, and utilities professionals to move beyond uncertainty and into a position of strength, where decisions are informed, actions are timely, and outcomes are improved.
This is more than a tool. It’s a strategic advantage.
By allowing agencies to see what lies ahead, FloodWise™ empowers them to change what happens next – protecting infrastructure, preserving resources, and ultimately building more resilient communities.
And in a world where every moment matters, that kind of foresight makes all the difference
Contact our team today to explore how FloodWise™ can elevate your public works and utilities strategy with advanced insights that drive smarter planning, stronger coordination, and more resilient operations
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