Stormwater Emergency Planning

Stormwater Emergency Planning is vital to many communities to prevent damage and protect public health, particularly in the face of increasing storm intensities, rising sea levels, and rising river levels. Though it’s important to increase stormwater system resilience, emergency planning for stormwater systems is essentially unsupported in legislation and funding. Governing agencies and rule-making have focused almost entirely on water quality and where emergency response is considered, on rebuilding what was destroyed.

That being said, Stormwater Emergency Planning can be accomplished in phases and stages. It takes some persistence and leadership, but you can prepare your community for greater storm intensities and water level increases. Ewers Engineering specializes in risk and resilience assessment to support agencies in conducting emergency planning, having spent greater than a decade conducting emergency planning for water and wastewater systems.

We’ve included some links to helpful material below. Contact Ewers Engineering to integrate these helpful resources and learn more about how Ewers Engineering can assist your agency in preparing for challenging storms and the range of their impacts.