Communities have extensive GIS & Storm Sewer Modeling Data available to them. This presentation walks through how communities can utilize this data to help plan, predict, and mitigate flooding within their communities. The overall goal of the presentation is to better educate individuals on how to build resiliency to urban flooding. The City of Burnsville (26.87 sq. mi.), like many communities throughout the Minnesota Minneaplis-St.Paul Metro, have a 1D City-Wide XPSWMM model. The City wanted to upgrade their 1D model to a 2D to create a model with the highest level of accuracy for their complex storm sewer network (Burnsville is the first community within the Metro to develop a City-Wide 2D model). The 2D model allowed the City to have a better understanding of current conditions a traditional 1D model wouldn’t be able to identify (i.e. surface flow velocities, erosion susceptibility of overland flow areas, EOF capacity issues in residential areas, and showing where overland flow conveyance points are most critical). The flood rasters and associated output data was then taken and integrated into a custom built Resiliency Model evaluating the Consequence of Failure versus the Likelihood of Failure criteria. The various parameters were then weighted based on input from City staff to determine the most critical aspects of their system such that the resiliency model would take these factors (weights) into account to determine which areas are the most “critical”. This approach removed any “bias” from the evaluation process allowing the City to develop a guiding document/living model the City can use for future planning & mitigation projects. All of the processes are fully dynamic allowing the 2D model and Resiliency Analysis to be rerun to re-prioritize the zones annually.

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