Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Assessment
Enhancing the Resilience of Communities and Businesses to Past, Current and Future Floods Through Improved Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Assessment
Every year, thousands of Canadians pay the emotional and financial costs associated with flooding. When our homes are at risk, our financial security is too. In Canada, floods are recognized as the most common, largely distributed, natural hazard to life, property, the economy, community/industry water systems, and the environment. In the Anthropocene, extreme flooding will continue to be concentrated in regions where humans have built on floodplains or low-lying coastal regions. As global warming increases the likelihood for more extreme weather events to occur, risks will expand beyond the high-risk areas known today. More extreme flooding must be expected, and for the towns and cities where flooding has already occured, theirs will no longer be a ‘once in a lifetime’ risk but now far more frequent.
The reality is that this is the world we live in with 1.1oC of warming and Canada is warming faster than the global average. These record temperatures, record floods are not anomalous, they are the beginning of a new norm, and the new records will continue to be exceeded, year after year. What will things be like in a few decades when we hit global warming of 1.5oC? As affected communities drain, dredge, dry out and count the cost of lost belongings, ruined homes, and businesses, as people live with lingering damp, and new fears of future storms, it appears that much needs to be done to prepare ourselves to face our future reality. It is clear that ‘100-year floods’ are increasing in Canada due to climate change.
CLIMALOGIK’s expert team of flood risk specialists, hydrologists, numerical modellers, and climate scientists is working with our clients to help them map current and future flood risks to safeguard their communities and assets against the new normal. Currently, the engineering community lacks the robust scientific knowledge, data, and modeling technologies, and forecasting capacities to predict the risk and severity of potentially catastrophic flood events in Canada. These knowledge gaps and technology barriers have resulted in significant loss of life and property in recent years. Our team works collaboratively with leading research and cloud computing institutions to harness the latest insights and advances in flood risk mapping to solve our clients’ flood hazard challenges.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Flood Hazard Mapping, Modeling, And Forecasting
- Numerical Flood Simulation
- Statistical Frequency Analysis
- Ice-Jam Flood Mapping and Mitigation Assessment
- Flood Risk Reduction Strategies
- Floodplain Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Large Scale Flood Risk Mapping in Data Scarce
- Flood Planning and Policy