Water Resource Associates
A network of consultants in water resources, water quality, hydrology, hydrogeology and flooding.
Flood Forecasting Modelling Platform – Environment Agency (Southern Region, UK)
Development of flood forecasting software for the south-east of England
Background
The UK's Environment Agency is charged with the responsibility of issuing flood warning for UK rivers. The Southern Region of the Agency wished to improve the accuracy and lead time of forecasts with the use of PC based models linked to their real-time telemetry system. Reliable software, delivered on time and to budget was required handle the interaction with the user, telemetry data files, execution of an arbitrary number of hydrological models and presentation of results.
WRA Scope of work
WRA were commissioned to write the software to accomplish thetask described above. An easy to use solution was provided based on experience in writing robust applications such as the HYSIM rainfall/runoff model and RESSIM/Aquator Water Resource system simulation software. The Flood Forecasting Platform is a 32 bit Windows application
Typical flooding problems
Results
The Flood Forecasting Platform was delivered on time and to budget and is now undergoing deployment t o flood forecasting staff throughout the region.
Flooding of the River Thames
